“Is it reasonable to then conclude that you will be able to predict and control the behaviour of much more complex, multicelled creature called a “human” by spreading sugar out on the ground?”
Yes. Last time I checked the obesity stats it seemed to work just fine...
Jokes aside, you are making an important point. As we speak we have no idea how to even control humans, even if we are humans ourselves (possibly) and should have a pretty good idea what makes us tick we are clueless. Of course we can control humans to a certain degree (society, force, drugs, etc etc), but there are and will always be rouge elements that are uncontrollable. Being able to control 99.99999999999% of all future AI’s won’t cut it. Its either 100% or an epic fail (I guess this is only time it is warranted to use the word epic when talking about fails).
I would question the idea of “control” being pivotal.
Even if every AI is controllable, there’s still the possibility of humans telling those AIs to bad things and thereby destabilizing the world and throwing it into an equilibrium where there are no more humans.
“Is it reasonable to then conclude that you will be able to predict and control the behaviour of much more complex, multicelled creature called a “human” by spreading sugar out on the ground?”
Yes. Last time I checked the obesity stats it seemed to work just fine...
Jokes aside, you are making an important point. As we speak we have no idea how to even control humans, even if we are humans ourselves (possibly) and should have a pretty good idea what makes us tick we are clueless. Of course we can control humans to a certain degree (society, force, drugs, etc etc), but there are and will always be rouge elements that are uncontrollable. Being able to control 99.99999999999% of all future AI’s won’t cut it. Its either 100% or an epic fail (I guess this is only time it is warranted to use the word epic when talking about fails).
I would question the idea of “control” being pivotal.
Even if every AI is controllable, there’s still the possibility of humans telling those AIs to bad things and thereby destabilizing the world and throwing it into an equilibrium where there are no more humans.