So could an AI engineer create an AI blob of compute the same size as the brain, with its same structural parameters, feed it the same training data, and get the same result (“don’t steal” rather than “don’t get caught”)?
There is a disconnect with this question.
I think Scott is asking “Supposing an AI engineer could create something that was effectively a copy of a human brain and the same training data, then could this thing learn the “don’t steal” instinct over the “don’t get caught” instinct?” Eliezer is answering “Is an AI engineer able to create a copy of the human brain, provide it with the same training data a human got, and get the “don’t steal” instinct?”
Yeah, this read really bizarrely to me. This is a good way of making sense of that section, maybe. But then I’m still confused why Scott concluded “oh I was just confused in this way” and then EY said “yup that’s why you were confused”, and I’m still like “nope Scott’s question seems correctly placed; evolutionary history is indeed screened off by the runtime hyperparameterization and dataset.”
There is a disconnect with this question.
I think Scott is asking “Supposing an AI engineer could create something that was effectively a copy of a human brain and the same training data, then could this thing learn the “don’t steal” instinct over the “don’t get caught” instinct?”
Eliezer is answering “Is an AI engineer able to create a copy of the human brain, provide it with the same training data a human got, and get the “don’t steal” instinct?”
Yeah, this read really bizarrely to me. This is a good way of making sense of that section, maybe. But then I’m still confused why Scott concluded “oh I was just confused in this way” and then EY said “yup that’s why you were confused”, and I’m still like “nope Scott’s question seems correctly placed; evolutionary history is indeed screened off by the runtime hyperparameterization and dataset.”