EStokes comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: EStokes 30 December 2011 02:05:40AM 3 points [-]

If they have all the threory and coded it and whatnot, where is the cost coming from?

Comment author: falenas108 30 December 2011 02:59:15PM -1 points [-]

The theory for friendliness is completely separate from the theory of AI. So, assuming they complete one does not mean that they complete the other. Furthermore, for something as big as AI/FAI, the computing power required is likely to be huge, which makes it unlikely that a small company like SIAI will be able to create it.

Though, I suppose it might be possible if they were able to get large enough loans, I don't have the technical knowledge to say how much computing power is needed or how much that would cost.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 30 December 2011 07:39:00PM 3 points [-]

The theory for friendliness is completely separate from the theory of AI.

??? Maybe I'm being stupid, but I suspect it's fairly hard to fully and utterly solve the friendliness problem without, by the end of doing so, AT LEAST solving many of the tricky AI problems in general.