While I can imagine very simple forms of trade with human-level intelligent ants (e.g. you provide X units of wood, we will give you Y units of sugar), I do not expect a good outcome if I try to hire “army of ants” as an employee in my organization. I do not expect they would be able to join meetings, contribute points, understand other humans’ illegible desires for a project, understand our vague preferences, etc. What I’m saying is I only think this works for very well-defined trades, and not for a lot of other trades.
Maybe it’s better to model the army of ants as a CRO you would hire instead of an employee? And by extension, I would much prefer to be part of an AGI’s CRO than be extinct.
Sorry, I thought that would be more commonly understood. As Carl said, it stands for Contract Research Organization. Hiring one is a way to get additional resources to perform specific tasks without having them be part of your organization, understand your corporate strategy, or even know what project you’re working on. For example, a pharma company can hire a CRO to synthesize a specific set of potential drug compounds, without telling them what the biological target is or what disease they are trying to treat. Or think of the scenario where a rogue AGI hires someone to make a DNA sequence which turns out to code for a pathogen that kills all humans. This would likely be done at a CRO.
CRO’s are often thought of as being fairly competent at executing the specific task required of them, but less competent at thinking strategically, understanding the big picture, etc. So they are generally only hired for very well-defined trades, as you mentioned above.
I’m going to guess it’s like mumble Resource Organization, something you’d like “farm out” some work to rather than have them on payroll and in meetings as it were. Window Washers or Chimney Sweeps mayhap?
Just a guess, and I hope I’m not training an Evil AI by answering this question with what sprang to mind from the context.
While I can imagine very simple forms of trade with human-level intelligent ants (e.g. you provide X units of wood, we will give you Y units of sugar), I do not expect a good outcome if I try to hire “army of ants” as an employee in my organization. I do not expect they would be able to join meetings, contribute points, understand other humans’ illegible desires for a project, understand our vague preferences, etc. What I’m saying is I only think this works for very well-defined trades, and not for a lot of other trades.
Maybe it’s better to model the army of ants as a CRO you would hire instead of an employee? And by extension, I would much prefer to be part of an AGI’s CRO than be extinct.
What is a CRO? Google tells me it’s a crypto currency and a Certified Radio Operator, neither of which seem to fit.
(Broadly I am against acronyms in line with this document.)
Sorry, I thought that would be more commonly understood. As Carl said, it stands for Contract Research Organization. Hiring one is a way to get additional resources to perform specific tasks without having them be part of your organization, understand your corporate strategy, or even know what project you’re working on. For example, a pharma company can hire a CRO to synthesize a specific set of potential drug compounds, without telling them what the biological target is or what disease they are trying to treat. Or think of the scenario where a rogue AGI hires someone to make a DNA sequence which turns out to code for a pathogen that kills all humans. This would likely be done at a CRO.
CRO’s are often thought of as being fairly competent at executing the specific task required of them, but less competent at thinking strategically, understanding the big picture, etc. So they are generally only hired for very well-defined trades, as you mentioned above.
Contract Research Organization. Basically an outfit you can hire to perform experiments for you.
I’m going to guess it’s like mumble Resource Organization, something you’d like “farm out” some work to rather than have them on payroll and in meetings as it were. Window Washers or Chimney Sweeps mayhap?
Just a guess, and I hope I’m not training an Evil AI by answering this question with what sprang to mind from the context.