Hi Arepo, thanks for your idea. I don’t see how it could give advice so concrete and relevant for something like that without being a superintelligence, which makes it extremely hard to control.
You might be right, but that might also just be a failure of imagination. 20 years ago, I suspect many people would have assumed by the time we got AI the level of ChatGPT it would basically be agentic—as I understand it, the Turing test was basically predicated on that idea, and ChatGPT has pretty much nailed that while having very few characteristics that we might recognise in an agent. I’m less clear, but also have the sense that people would have believed something similar about calculators before they appeared.
I’m not asserting that this is obviously the most likely outcome, just that I don’t see convincing reasons for thinking it’s extremely unlikely.
Hi Arepo, thanks for your idea. I don’t see how it could give advice so concrete and relevant for something like that without being a superintelligence, which makes it extremely hard to control.
You might be right, but that might also just be a failure of imagination. 20 years ago, I suspect many people would have assumed by the time we got AI the level of ChatGPT it would basically be agentic—as I understand it, the Turing test was basically predicated on that idea, and ChatGPT has pretty much nailed that while having very few characteristics that we might recognise in an agent. I’m less clear, but also have the sense that people would have believed something similar about calculators before they appeared.
I’m not asserting that this is obviously the most likely outcome, just that I don’t see convincing reasons for thinking it’s extremely unlikely.