You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Mark_Friedenbach comments on LessWrong's attitude towards AI research - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Florian_Dietz 20 September 2014 03:02PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (49)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2014 04:27:26PM 2 points [-]

Is that healthy or realistic?

Comment author: Thomas 20 September 2014 05:44:06PM 6 points [-]

It's not realistic. MIRI has nothing to show in the field of AI.

Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 21 September 2014 02:22:02AM 1 point [-]

Is it time for the poser group to show up already? Most of the mathematics of AI has not been formalized yet. So yes, they do have something to show for it, not focusing on the wrong problem for years on end leading every one astray.

Among other things.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 September 2014 03:01:23AM 2 points [-]

AI is extremely well formalized. Every aspect of AI has strong mathmatical foundations and impressive theoretical results. What are you thinking hasn't been worked out yet?

Comment author: Vulture 23 September 2014 08:43:29PM 0 points [-]

I'm sure MIRI would appreciate it if you could point to the results that make their work redundant.

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 September 2014 10:48:03AM 0 points [-]

The word AI has a specific meaning and is not synonymous with AGI. There's indeed a lot of mathematics of AI published.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 September 2014 09:27:20PM *  0 points [-]

MIRI isn't working on AI, nor do they intend to in the near future. What MIRI is working on has nothing at all to do with actual AI/AGI implementations. They have said this publicly; this is not (or should not be) controversial.