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Is there a chess game where you can toggle the level of AI with ease? I ask for my kids and myself as I am a poor chess player.
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I'm not worried about the AI, I'm worried about the people and companies that have it.
The above sentiment is posted many times on every such thread, it would be greatly enriched with am explanation of why you're not worried about the AI. Because worrying about B is not a rationale for not worrying about A.
Are you worried about knives in general or are you worried about a knife in the hands of a particular person in a particular moment?
Why do we think AI will have motivations like a greedy human might? Why do we think AI will have motivations at all? Why do we think such AI is a pressing threat?
It’s not about motivation, it’s about doing whatever it’s been programmed to do, and grabbing whatever means it can to that end. Now something as puny as a large language model won’t have much reach (the current ones can’t even read the internet after the initial learning phase), but if you have a way to give the thing an unbounded goal, then it will use all means at its disposal to make that goal happen. Heck, even…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not worried about the AI, I'm worried about the people and companies that have it.
The above sentiment is posted many times on every such thread, it would be greatly enriched with am explanation of why you're not worried about the AI. Because worrying about B is not a rationale for not worrying about A.
Is there a chess game where you can toggle the level of AI with ease? I ask for my kids and myself as I am a poor chess player.
Is there a chess game where you can toggle the level of AI with ease? I ask for my kids and myself as I am a poor chess player.
Since the 1980's there have been chess computers with levels that you could set that would handily defeat most club level chess players. The Stockfish software from TFA is a very far removed descendant from those early dedicated chess computers and usually you can set the level of your opponent by limiting the depth of search to a certain number of ply. That alone is a powerful switch to control how well it plays.
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The above sentiment is posted many times on every such thread, it would be greatly enriched with am explanation of why you're not worried about the AI. Because worrying about B is not a rationale for not worrying about A.
Because the AI controlled by humans is a tool, a technology, that can be used in various ways. Are you worried about knives in general or are you worried about a knife in the hands of a particular person in a particular moment?
That aside, I can also think of many cases where I would feel less safe around a machine that had nobody in control of it, than one being adeptly controlled by an operator.
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The above sentiment is posted many times on every such thread, it would be greatly enriched with am explanation of why you're not worried about the AI. Because worrying about B is not a rationale for not worrying about A.
Besides the other comment which is quite correct, we're going to suffer from B far before we will suffer from A.
So, the solution is not to play on a battlefield where the AI has an advantage. Instead play with humans and have fun. Meanwhile all battlefields will one-by-one become battlefields where the AI has the advantage. Because in the end almost every contest between humans is either one based on strength or on speed and the AI will always be able to match us for speed. And strength has long been the domain of machines, co…
I don't think rock climbers need to worry about Stockfish.
We're going to lose to specialized machines every time while putting to shame any general purpose machines of our own creation. At least for a while yet no machine is going to match the breadth of our capabilities and our self-sufficiency.
It's no surprise that something that is optimized for being capable of many things can get beaten by a thing optimized for a single purpose.
Why do we think AI will have motivations like a greedy human might? Why do we think AI will have motivations at all? Why do we think such AI is a pressing threat?