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Lumifer comments on [link] New essay summarizing some of my latest thoughts on AI safety - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 01 November 2015 08:07AM

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Comment author: SilentCal 09 November 2015 07:19:42PM 2 points [-]

http://rocknrollnerd.github.io/ml/2015/05/27/leopard-sofa.html is also relevant--tl;dr Google Photos classifies a leopard-print sofa as a leopard. I think this lends credence to the 'treacherous turn' insofar as it's an example of a classifier seeming to perform well and breaking down in edge cases.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 November 2015 07:35:26PM 1 point [-]

and breaking down in edge cases

Except that from a human point of view a leopard-print sofa isn't an edge case at all.