“Why would we be stupid enough to do that.?” For the same reason we give automatic trading software “effectors” to make trades on real world markets. For the same reason we have robot arms in factories assembling cars. For the same reason Google connects its machine learning algorithms directly to the internet. BECAUSE IT IS PROFITABLE.
People don’t want to build an AI just to keep it in a box. People want AI to do stuff for them, and in order for it to be profitable, they will want AI to do stuff faster and more effectively than a human. If it’s not worrying to you because you think people will be cautious, and not give the AI any ability to affect the world, and be instantly ready to turn off their multi-billion dollar research project, you are ASSUMING a level of caution that MIRI is trying to promote! You’ve already bought their argument, and think everyone else has!
“Why would we be stupid enough to do that.?” For the same reason we give automatic trading software “effectors” to make trades on real world markets. For the same reason we have robot arms in factories assembling cars. For the same reason Google connects its machine learning algorithms directly to the internet. BECAUSE IT IS PROFITABLE.
People don’t want to build an AI just to keep it in a box. People want AI to do stuff for them, and in order for it to be profitable, they will want AI to do stuff faster and more effectively than a human. If it’s not worrying to you because you think people will be cautious, and not give the AI any ability to affect the world, and be instantly ready to turn off their multi-billion dollar research project, you are ASSUMING a level of caution that MIRI is trying to promote! You’ve already bought their argument, and think everyone else has!