with regards to AI not caring about the real world, for example the h sapiens cares about the ‘outside’ world and wants to maximize number of paperclips, err, souls in heaven, without ever having been given any cue that outside even exists. It seems we assume that AI is some sciencefiction robot dude that acts all logical and doesn’t act creatively, and is utterly sane. Sanity is NOT what you tend to get from hill climbing. You get ‘whatever works’.
That’s a good point. There might be some kind of “goal drift”: programs that have goals other than optimization that nevertheless lead to good optimization. I don’t know how likely this is, especially given that the goal “just solve the damn problems” is simple and leads to good optimization ability.
with regards to AI not caring about the real world, for example the h sapiens cares about the ‘outside’ world and wants to maximize number of paperclips, err, souls in heaven, without ever having been given any cue that outside even exists. It seems we assume that AI is some sciencefiction robot dude that acts all logical and doesn’t act creatively, and is utterly sane. Sanity is NOT what you tend to get from hill climbing. You get ‘whatever works’.
That’s a good point. There might be some kind of “goal drift”: programs that have goals other than optimization that nevertheless lead to good optimization. I don’t know how likely this is, especially given that the goal “just solve the damn problems” is simple and leads to good optimization ability.