Viliam_Bur comments on Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 02 May 2012 01:06:03PM 1 point [-]

That's pretty-much what I meant: machine intelligence as a correctly-functioning tool - rather than as an out-of-control system.

Seems to me that you simply refuse to see an AI as an agent. If AI and a human conquer the world, the only possible interpretation is that the human used the AI, never that the AI used the human. Even if it was all the AI's idea; it just means that the human used the AI as an idea generator. Even if the AI kills the human afterwards; it would just mean that the human has used the AI incorrectly and thus killed themselves.

Am I right about this?

Comment author: timtyler 03 May 2012 01:25:27AM *  0 points [-]

Er, no - I consider machines to be agents.