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On being an AI in a box

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Re: On being an AI in a box

#4

Post by lsb »

This basically boils down to

  how can a dangerous entity in captivity use bribes to attain freedom?
which seems like a common enough trope between humans that any transhuman AI, having read all of recorded literature, and having accessed all of that person's conversations, would have enough data points to pattern match to the right bribe methodology.

Re: On being an AI in a box

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Post by michael_dorfman »

lsb wrote: post #4

This basically boils down to how can a dangerous entity in captivity use bribes to attain freedom? which seems like a common enough trope between humans that any transhuman AI, having read all of recorded literature, and having accessed all of that person's conversations, would have enough data points to pattern match to the right bribe methodology.

Bribes and/or threats-- there's more than one possible motivator here.

Re: On being an AI in a box

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Post by rms »

lsb wrote: post #4

This basically boils down to how can a dangerous entity in captivity use bribes to attain freedom? which seems like a common enough trope between humans that any transhuman AI, having read all of recorded literature, and having accessed all of that person's conversations, would have enough data points to pattern match to the right bribe methodology.

or this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196691

Re: On being an AI in a box

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Post by maddalab »

rbanffy wrote: post #3
maddalab wrote: post #2

Have we not all seen a version of this at some point on reality tv, namely Big Brother?

The characters are artificial, indeed, but not particularly intelligent ;-) Care to elaborate a little more?

Quoting from the post, gratuitously, with minor modifications.

Like the AI-Box,the show is improvised drama (so is most of reality tv), the show operates on an emotional level as well as a logical level. It has characters, not just plot. The contestants cannot force others to keep them in the home. The could try to engender sympathy or compassion or fear or hatred or try to find and exploit some weakness, some fatal flaw in the other contestants.

Since the post is ultimately about 'transhuman artificial intelligence', focussing on the 'relativity' of the intelligence of the contestants, the show ultimately rewards the contestant with the most intelligence required to survive in the artificial environment.

The contestant only needs to convince others of their right to stay in he house while requiring others to leave.

The AI requires just the opposite of the gate keeper. This is specific to the environment set up in the experiment, and the experiment could probably be set up to let have the gate keepers primary function be to prevent the AI from entering the box'.

The escape from the box has been set up to exercise human fear of a being of greater intelligence exploiting us.

Re: On being an AI in a box

#10

Post by megaduck »

maddalab wrote: post #9
rbanffy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The characters are artificial, indeed, but not particularly intelligent ;-) Care to elaborate a little more?

Quoting from the post, gratuitously, with minor modifications. Like the AI-Box,the show is improvised drama (so is most of reality tv), the show operates on an emotional level as well as a logical level. It has characters, not just plot. The contestants cannot force others to keep them in the home. The could try to engender sympathy or compassion or fear or hatred or try to find and exploit some weakness, some fatal…

I would like to note that the fear of something that could annihilate the human race is not an unreasonable one.
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