This gave me an idea for an experiment/argument. Posting here, in case somebody wants come up with a more thought-out version of it and do it.
[On describing what would change his mind:] You couldn’t find weird behaviors [in the AI], no matter how hard you tried.
People like to take an AI, poke it, and then argue “it is doing [all these silly mistakes], therefore [not AGI/not something to worry about/...]”. Now, the conclusion might be right, but the argument is wrong—even dangerous things can be stupid is some settings. Nevertheless, the argument seems convincing.
My prediction is that people make a lot of mistakes[1] that would seem equally laughable if it was AI that made them. Except that we are so used to them that we don’t appreciate it. So if one buys the argument above, they should conclude that humans are also [not general intelligence/something to worry about/...]. So perhaps if we presented the human mistakes right, it could become a memorable counterargument to “AI makes silly mistakes, hence no need to worry about it”.
Some example formats:
“Look at these silly AI mistakes! Surprise, that’s normal people.” or
“Quizz: AI mistake or human mistake?”
(uhm, or “Quizz: AI or Trump?”; wouldn’t mention this, except bots on that guy already exist).
Obligatory disclaimer: It might turn out that humans really don’t make [any sorts of] [silly mistakes current AI makes], or make [so few that it doesn’t matter]. If you could operationalize this, that would also be valuable.
This gave me an idea for an experiment/argument. Posting here, in case somebody wants come up with a more thought-out version of it and do it.
People like to take an AI, poke it, and then argue “it is doing [all these silly mistakes], therefore [not AGI/not something to worry about/...]”. Now, the conclusion might be right, but the argument is wrong—even dangerous things can be stupid is some settings. Nevertheless, the argument seems convincing.
My prediction is that people make a lot of mistakes[1] that would seem equally laughable if it was AI that made them. Except that we are so used to them that we don’t appreciate it. So if one buys the argument above, they should conclude that humans are also [not general intelligence/something to worry about/...]. So perhaps if we presented the human mistakes right, it could become a memorable counterargument to “AI makes silly mistakes, hence no need to worry about it”.
Some example formats:
“Look at these silly AI mistakes! Surprise, that’s normal people.” or
“Quizz: AI mistake or human mistake?”
(uhm, or “Quizz: AI or Trump?”; wouldn’t mention this, except bots on that guy already exist).
Obligatory disclaimer: It might turn out that humans really don’t make [any sorts of] [silly mistakes current AI makes], or make [so few that it doesn’t matter]. If you could operationalize this, that would also be valuable.
What is “these mistakes”? I don’t know . Exercise for the reader.