Desrtopa comments on AI box: AI has one shot at avoiding destruction - what might it say? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 23 January 2013 04:22:21PM *  12 points [-]

Having a text based AI trying to act like a kid is way too Uncanny Valley for me. I'd swat that without a moment's hesitation.

Comment author: gwern 23 January 2013 04:34:10PM 6 points [-]

If it's in the uncanny valley, then it just needs to be a little more competent to get out of the valley & convince you. ("I want to believe!")

Comment author: Desrtopa 23 January 2013 04:37:37PM *  4 points [-]

It needs to be more competent to stop being viscerally frightening, not to reach the point where I wouldn't pull the plug. I would sooner kill a real kid than risk letting out an unfriendly AI, and I'm saying that as someone who'd like to have kids.

Comment author: devas 27 January 2013 07:52:56PM 0 points [-]

I don't want to die.

-Looking at the problem, as far as I can see an emotional approach would be the one with the best chance to succeed: the only question is, would it work best by immediately acknowledging that it is itself a machine (like I did in what I wrote up there, although subtly) or by throwing in... I dunno, how would this work:

Oh god, oh god, please, I beg you I don't want to die!

Comment author: Kawoomba 27 January 2013 04:42:23PM 0 points [-]

Tough crowd. I'll (as an AI) have to wait out the next shift. You can't be the 24/7 gatekeeper, unless you're in fact a gatekeeping AI.