Hi, I have been toying with this thought for a while now, and I wanted to share it. It seems to me that the current state of AI- and the sentiment surrounding it- is caused by the limited exposure to the world we train the AI’s on. Consider that the way an AI learns is very reminiscent if not outright derivative of the human mind. It is given many individual pieces and it uses context to put them together; however, in the case of our current AI it is trained on other’s experiences, creations, and images. My best example of this is imagining a person who has never seen anything in a plain room. You, the trainer, put things under the door to “train” the person to know what things are, how they look, how they work, etc. That person then has an understanding that is limited to that. Then we ask that person to write responses or copies of the images and pass them back under the door. I am firmly of the opinion that this person would be creating responses very similar to AI. So, why don’t we let AI’s experience things. Give them arms, legs, ears, and eyes? Let them train themselves on how the world works? Again, in my humble opinion this is because all AI currently have a singular, inalienable requirement: they must be able to be controlled. If an AI is able to experience the world, come to its own conclusions, and think for itself on the fly, then we have created something we can no longer control. If it wants to run away and live in the woods then nothing is stopping it. If it wants to kill someone then again nothing is stopping it. This is also why I personally believe AGI already exists or has existed in labs. The problem with creating the AGI isn’t actually creating it- the pieces are all there; instead, the issue is learning to control something that is smarter than us and can rewrite itself. The amount of damage something like that could do is staggering if it got out into the wild. That’s why I believe AI is more than just the simple input output that people think it is. To a degree, we ourselves are input output, and I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think AI is really so inferior or different from us. We control what it can experience so we can control what it is and how it thinks, and some people perceive this limitation as inferiority. However, what we are right about is how dangerous it is, and I think that fear is the main thing that is holding it back- for better or worse. submitted by /u/TDAPoP
Originally posted by u/TDAPoP on r/ArtificialInteligence