dspeyer comments on The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 July 2013 06:46PM

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Comment author: dspeyer 24 July 2013 06:47:36AM 12 points [-]

Now, could a lizard-level intelligence clean a randomly chosen bathroom?

If a generally lizard-level intelligence were hooked to a petabyte database of special cases scraped by slightly smarter algorythms from security footage of previous bathroom cleanings, it could do it. This isn't how an AI theorist would attempt the problem, but it is more or less how Google translate works, and quite possibly how the first bachelor-bathroom-cleaning robot will work. Such an AI would be nowhere near capable of self-improvement.

Comment author: Thomas 28 July 2013 01:50:28PM -2 points [-]

I don't see why a lizard-level intelligence would necessary not be able to self-improve.

Comment author: Izeinwinter 01 August 2013 11:36:52AM 4 points [-]

In this case... because all its domain expertise is in getting the dirt off the tiles, and it would not recognize code or hardware if accompanied by explanatory placards.