Thank you for this! A lot of us have a very bad habit of over-systematizing our thinking, and treating all uses of AI (and even all interfaces to a given model instance) as one singular thing. Different tool-level AI instances probably SHOULD strive for 4 or 5 nines of availability, in order to have mundane utility in places where small downtime for a use blocks a lot of value. Research AIs, especially self-improving or research-on-AI ones, don’t need that reliability, and both triggered downtime (scheduled, or enforced based on Schelling-line events) as well as unplanned downtime (it just broke, and we have to spend time to figure out why) can be valuable to give humans time to react.
Thank you for this! A lot of us have a very bad habit of over-systematizing our thinking, and treating all uses of AI (and even all interfaces to a given model instance) as one singular thing. Different tool-level AI instances probably SHOULD strive for 4 or 5 nines of availability, in order to have mundane utility in places where small downtime for a use blocks a lot of value. Research AIs, especially self-improving or research-on-AI ones, don’t need that reliability, and both triggered downtime (scheduled, or enforced based on Schelling-line events) as well as unplanned downtime (it just broke, and we have to spend time to figure out why) can be valuable to give humans time to react.