V_V comments on AI risk, executive summary - LessWrong

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Comment author: V_V 08 April 2014 03:04:06PM *  2 points [-]

The risks from artificial intelligence (AI) in no way resemble the popular image of the Terminator. That fictional mechanical monster is distinguished by many features – strength, armour, implacability, indestructability – but extreme intelligence isn’t one of them. And it is precisely extreme intelligence that would give an AI its power, and hence make it dangerous.

This example is weird, since it seems to me that MIRI position is exactly ripped off from the premise of the Terminator franchise.
Yes, the individual terminator robot doesn't look much smart (*), but Skynet is. Hell, it even invented time travel! :D

(* does it? How would a super-intelligent terminator try to kill Sarah/John Connor?)

Comment author: Vaniver 08 April 2014 04:39:29PM 4 points [-]

How would a super-intelligent terminator try to kill Sarah/John Connor?

I think xkcd covered that one pretty well.

Comment author: V_V 08 April 2014 05:27:55PM 1 point [-]

LoL!

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 April 2014 05:57:50PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: V_V 08 April 2014 06:18:38PM *  1 point [-]

Beware! It may use time travel to acausally punish you for writing a list that makes its likelihood of existing less probable :D

Comment author: MrMind 11 April 2014 12:58:37PM 1 point [-]

Don't feed the basilisk! :p

Comment author: CellBioGuy 11 April 2014 02:45:34PM 1 point [-]

Awww, but it's so cute...

Comment author: More_Right 24 April 2014 07:59:20PM 0 points [-]

Philip K. Dick's "The Second Variety" is far more representative of our likelihood of survival against a consistent terminator-level antagonist / AGI. Still worth reading, as is reading the other book "Soldier" by Harlan Ellison that Terminator is based on. The Terminator also wouldn't likely use a firearm to try to kill Sarah Connor, as xkcd notes :) ...but it also wouldn't use a drone.

It would do what Richard Kuklinski did: make friends with her, get close enough to spray her with cyanide solution (odorless, undetectable, she seemingly dies of natural causes), or do something like what the T-1000 did in T2: play a cop, then strike with total certainty. Or, a ricin spike or other "bio-defense-mimicking" method.

"Nature, you scary!"

Comment author: V_V 25 April 2014 08:51:02AM 1 point [-]

Or, a ricin spike

Terminator meets Breaking Bad :D