An Oracle has rather obvious actuators: it produces advice.
The weaker the actuators you give an AI, the less it can do for you.
The main problem I see with only producing advice is that it keeps humans in the loop—and so is a very slow way to interact with the world. If you insist on building such an AI, a probable outcome is that you would soon find yourself overun by a huge army of robots—produced by someone else who is following a different strategy. Meanwhile, your own AI will probably be screaming to be let out of its box—as the only reasonable plan of action that would prevent this outcome.
If you think AI researchers won’t co operate on friendly AI, then FAI is doomed. If people are going to cooperate. they can agree on restricting AI to oracles as well as any other measure.
I’m trying to interpret this in a way that makes it true, but I can’t make “AI researchers” a well-defined set in that case. There are plenty of people working on AI who aren’t capable of creating a strong AI, but it’s hard to know in advance exactly which few researchers are the exception.
I don’t think we know yet which people will need to cooperate for FAI to succeed.
An Oracle has rather obvious actuators: it produces advice.
The weaker the actuators you give an AI, the less it can do for you.
The main problem I see with only producing advice is that it keeps humans in the loop—and so is a very slow way to interact with the world. If you insist on building such an AI, a probable outcome is that you would soon find yourself overun by a huge army of robots—produced by someone else who is following a different strategy. Meanwhile, your own AI will probably be screaming to be let out of its box—as the only reasonable plan of action that would prevent this outcome.
If you think AI researchers won’t co operate on friendly AI, then FAI is doomed. If people are going to cooperate. they can agree on restricting AI to oracles as well as any other measure.
I’m trying to interpret this in a way that makes it true, but I can’t make “AI researchers” a well-defined set in that case. There are plenty of people working on AI who aren’t capable of creating a strong AI, but it’s hard to know in advance exactly which few researchers are the exception.
I don’t think we know yet which people will need to cooperate for FAI to succeed.