| ▲ | seanabrahams 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
A computer will do everything in its power to do what you program it to do. There's plenty of sci-fi out there exploring this fact, and now reality showing it. May our luck continue. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pixl97 3 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
One reason a lot of sci-fi and AI safety researchers did a relatively good job at predicting the future we see now is a lot of it is the same problems we see emerge in biological systems. Free rider problems as a means to save energy expenditures, different versions of game theory and stag hunt. How to bake in rules that apply to one society (or part of it) but not another. We like to think of these things as stable in human scale systems, but they are not at all. Things can go from hunky dory to your neighbors stabbing each other in the streets in mass revolution very quickly. Worse these AI systems are not in a universal island just affecting themselves, what they do affects us, what we do trains them and as the rate of progress continues to accelerate social structures are going to further destabilize (and they are already rapidly changing and strained). It is very likely we are going to see a world order rearrangement soon, much like the rapid changes in the early 1900s brought. | |||||||||||||||||
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