Yeah I agree that duality is not a good measure of whether a system contains something like an AI. There is one kind of AI that we can build that is highly dualistic. Most present-day AI systems are quite dualistic, because they are predicated on having some robust compute infrastructure that is separate from and mostly unperturbed by the world around it. But there is every reason to go beyond these dualistic designs, for precisely the reason you point to: such systems do tend to be somewhat brittle.
I think it’s quite feasible to build highly robust AI systems, although doing so will likely require more than just hardening (making it really unlikely for the system to be perturbed). What we really want is an AI system where the core AI itself tends to evolve back to a stable configuration despite perturbations to its core infrastructure. My sense is that this will actually require a significant shift in how we think about AI—specifically moving from the agent model to something that captures what is good and helpful in the agent model but discards the dualistic view of things.
Yeah I agree that duality is not a good measure of whether a system contains something like an AI. There is one kind of AI that we can build that is highly dualistic. Most present-day AI systems are quite dualistic, because they are predicated on having some robust compute infrastructure that is separate from and mostly unperturbed by the world around it. But there is every reason to go beyond these dualistic designs, for precisely the reason you point to: such systems do tend to be somewhat brittle.
I think it’s quite feasible to build highly robust AI systems, although doing so will likely require more than just hardening (making it really unlikely for the system to be perturbed). What we really want is an AI system where the core AI itself tends to evolve back to a stable configuration despite perturbations to its core infrastructure. My sense is that this will actually require a significant shift in how we think about AI—specifically moving from the agent model to something that captures what is good and helpful in the agent model but discards the dualistic view of things.