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Stupid questions thread, October 2015
cgag00

I'd be interested in hearing your answer if you're willing to share.

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Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015
cgag10

I've mostly been here for the sequences and interesting rationality discussion, I know very little about AI outside of the general problem of FAI, so apologies if this question is extremely broad.

I stumbled upon this facebook group (Model-Free Methods) https://www.facebook.com/groups/model.free.methods.for.agi/416111845251471/?notif_t=group_comment_reply discussion a recent LW post, and they seem to cast LW's "reductionist AI" approach to AI in a negative light compared to their "neural network paradigm".

These people seem confident dee... (read more)

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0hydkyll
I think this sums up the problem. If you want to build a safe AI you can't use neural nets because you have no clue what the system is actually doing.
4Manfred
There isn't really a "LW approach to AI," but there are some factors at work here. If there's one universal LW buzzword, it's "Bayesian methods," though that's not an AI design, one might call it a conceptual stance. There's also LW's focus on decision theory, which, while still not an AI design, is usually expressed as short, "model-dependent" algorithms. It would also be nice for a self-improving AI to have a human-understandable method of value learning, which leads to more focus diverted away from black-box methods. As to whether there's some tribal conflict to be worried about here, nah, probably not.