= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread September, Part 3 - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (203)
An example might be binary search, which is pretty trivial conceptually but which took many years for a correct, bug-free algorithm to be published.
e.g. see: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html where a bug in a popular published version of the search remained undetected for decades.
This kind of thing is particularly worrying in the context of AI, which may well need to be exactly right the first time!
That's terrifying in the context of get-it-right-the-first-time AI.
I hope there will be some discussion of why people think it's possible to get around that sort of unknown unknown, or at best, barely niggling on the edge of consciousness unknown.