Basically, you can’t predict the moves of a good chess AI, otherwise you’d be at least that good chess player yourself, and yet you know it’s going to win the game.
This is a really good point. When I read it I first thought I would have to disagree, after all we’ve designed the chess AI and therefore do understand it. But since I am currently reading Daniel Dennett’s ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ my next thought was that disagreeing with it seems to be a general bias assuming that a design is always inferior to its designer. But it should be obvious that our machines are faster and stronger than us, why not better thinkers too?
Unlike the blind idiot God we can pinpoint our own flaws and devise solutions but are also unable to apply them to ourselves effectively, which will be realized by the next level of self-redesigning things. But even now our designs can be superior to us as they mirror our own improved upon capabilities, our skills minus our flaws. We are still able to understand our machines but unable to mimic their capabilities as we’ve been able to recreate some of our skills but haven’t been able to benefit from the improvements we devised. We know that steel is tougher than bones, beware “steel” that knows this fact as well.
This is a really good point. When I read it I first thought I would have to disagree, after all we’ve designed the chess AI and therefore do understand it. But since I am currently reading Daniel Dennett’s ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ my next thought was that disagreeing with it seems to be a general bias assuming that a design is always inferior to its designer. But it should be obvious that our machines are faster and stronger than us, why not better thinkers too?
Unlike the blind idiot God we can pinpoint our own flaws and devise solutions but are also unable to apply them to ourselves effectively, which will be realized by the next level of self-redesigning things. But even now our designs can be superior to us as they mirror our own improved upon capabilities, our skills minus our flaws. We are still able to understand our machines but unable to mimic their capabilities as we’ve been able to recreate some of our skills but haven’t been able to benefit from the improvements we devised. We know that steel is tougher than bones, beware “steel” that knows this fact as well.