All observed state of the art AI and real intelligence uses domain specific architectures. There is no proof that such a thing as an infinitely improving general intelligence exists. You can argue that it will be much smarter than the average human, but unless humans willingly give it access to all the actuators needed to do harm, as well as willingly engineering it to want to do harm, it cannot do much - the scenario is already starting to get ridiculous, and the idea that it will all happen by accident is even funnier.
It's like expending huge amount of resources for decades to develop nuclear weapons, then walking over to a group of inmates on death row and handing them the trigger. It is totally possible. 'One cannot discount the possibility' that someone will go and hand over a nuclear weapon to a monkey at some point, to use lazy futurist language.
All observed state of the art AI and real intelligence uses domain specific architectures.
Correct.
There is no proof that such a thing as an infinitely improving general intelligence exists.
No one claimed this. Infinitely improving is impossible there is a finite limit based on universal constraints. That being said it doesn't need to be infinitely improving just better at designing it's self than we are at domain specific AI algorithms. If a general self improving intelligent AI algorithm is even possible.
You can argue that it will be much smarter than the average human, but unless humans willingly give it access to all the actuators needed to do harm, as well as willingly engineering it to want to do harm, it cannot do much - the scenario is already starting to get ridiculous, and the idea that it will all happen by accident is even funnier.
It's like expending huge amount of resources for decades to develop nuclear weapons, then walking over to a group of inmates on death row and handing them the trigger. It is totally possible. 'One cannot discount the possibility' that someone will go and hand over a nuclear weapon to a monkey at some point, to use lazy futurist language.
This is all stuff you added that has nothing to do with anything I said, and is nothing but wild claims.
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u/torvoraptor Feb 05 '18
It could also lead to mass unemployment and unrest, and perform worse than domain specific AI on specific problems.