The sample-efficient learning thing is an interesting crux. I tentatively agree with you that it seems hard for AIs that are as sample-inefficient as todays to be dangerous. However… on my todo list is to interrogate that. In my “median future” story, for example, we have chatbots that are talking to millions of people every day and online-learning from those interactions. Maybe it can make up in quantity what it lacks in quality, so to speak—maybe it can keep up with world affairs and react to recent developments via seeing millions of data points about it, rather than by seeing one data point and being sample-efficient. Idk.
Excellent, thanks!
The sample-efficient learning thing is an interesting crux. I tentatively agree with you that it seems hard for AIs that are as sample-inefficient as todays to be dangerous. However… on my todo list is to interrogate that. In my “median future” story, for example, we have chatbots that are talking to millions of people every day and online-learning from those interactions. Maybe it can make up in quantity what it lacks in quality, so to speak—maybe it can keep up with world affairs and react to recent developments via seeing millions of data points about it, rather than by seeing one data point and being sample-efficient. Idk.