Current ML work is on track to produce things that are, in the ways that matter, more like “randomly sampled plans” than like “the sorts of plans a civilization of human von Neumanns would produce”. (Before we’re anywhere near being able to produce the latter sorts of things.)[9]
We’re building “AI” in the sense of building powerful general search processes (and search processes for search processes), not building “AI” in the sense of building friendly ~humans but in silicon.
Mainly from the second paragraph, I got the impression that “randomly sampled plans” referred to, or at least included, what is the goal, not just how much you optimize it. Anyway, I think I’m losing the thread of the discussion, so whatever.
Mainly from the second paragraph, I got the impression that “randomly sampled plans” referred to, or at least included, what is the goal, not just how much you optimize it. Anyway, I think I’m losing the thread of the discussion, so whatever.