Thanks for the handy list of criteria. I'm not sure how (3) would apply to a recurrent neural net for language modeling, since it's difficult to make an imperceptible perturbation of text (as opposed to an image).
Regarding (2): given the impressive performance of RNNs in different text domains (English, Wikipedia markup, Latex code, etc), it would be interesting to see how an RNN trained on English text would perform on Latex code, for example. I would expect it to carry over some representations that are common to the training and test data, like the aforementioned brackets and quotes.
New essay summarizing some of my latest thoughts on AI safety, ~3500 words. I explain why I think that some of the thought experiments that have previously been used to illustrate the dangers of AI are flawed and should be used very cautiously, why I'm less worried about the dangers of AI than I used to be, and what are some of the remaining reasons for why I do continue to be somewhat worried.
Backcover celebrity endorsement: "Thanks, Kaj, for a very nice write-up. It feels good to be discussing actually meaningful issues regarding AI safety. This is a big contrast to discussions I've had in the past with MIRI folks on AI safety, wherein they have generally tried to direct the conversation toward bizarre, pointless irrelevancies like "the values that would be held by a randomly selected mind", or "AIs with superhuman intelligence making retarded judgments" (like tiling the universe with paperclips to make humans happy), and so forth.... Now OTOH, we are actually discussing things of some potential practical meaning ;p ..." -- Ben Goertzel