It’s funny, when trying to think how could an AI exploit the text interface, I came up with the idea of writing multiple lines of ASCII text in a rapid fashion and produce an “ASCII video” for the human to watch. Unless the AI could only write a new line every second or something like that...
This made me wonder if the AI could also exploit other things such as the sound the machine would do when specific data patterns would be copied into RAM or when certain sequences of computations would be processed by a CPU. Sure, the machine (including the monitor) could be placed in a sound proof room, but then I start thinking about energy dissipation patterns and how could those be used to interfere with the environment and consequently with the human...
Anyway, I think that when thinking about the means of communication the AI has available, one should be thorough and consider everything that is a part of, or is connected to, the physical system running the AI.
Also there are great number of possibilities that even the smartest persons could not even imagine, but powerful Superintelligence could.
I think that, if you want to discuss the notion of the Superintelligent in any kind of a rational way, it is useful to make a distinction between “the Superintelligent can do things we can’t”, and “the Superintelligence is literally omnipotent”. If the latter is true, then any meaningful discussion of it is impossible—for the same set of reasons that meaningful discussion of the omni-everything Christian god is impossible.
It’s funny, when trying to think how could an AI exploit the text interface, I came up with the idea of writing multiple lines of ASCII text in a rapid fashion and produce an “ASCII video” for the human to watch. Unless the AI could only write a new line every second or something like that...
This made me wonder if the AI could also exploit other things such as the sound the machine would do when specific data patterns would be copied into RAM or when certain sequences of computations would be processed by a CPU. Sure, the machine (including the monitor) could be placed in a sound proof room, but then I start thinking about energy dissipation patterns and how could those be used to interfere with the environment and consequently with the human...
Anyway, I think that when thinking about the means of communication the AI has available, one should be thorough and consider everything that is a part of, or is connected to, the physical system running the AI.
Exactly. Also there are great number of possibilities that even the smartest persons could not even imagine, but powerful Superintelligence could.
I think that, if you want to discuss the notion of the Superintelligent in any kind of a rational way, it is useful to make a distinction between “the Superintelligent can do things we can’t”, and “the Superintelligence is literally omnipotent”. If the latter is true, then any meaningful discussion of it is impossible—for the same set of reasons that meaningful discussion of the omni-everything Christian god is impossible.