New Learning AI

[unreasonable]

Interesting article on a new AI capable of learning to play PC games:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/25/google-develops-computer-program-capable-of-learning-tasks-independently

[Urra]

That might be worth a billion or two. I think it's out of our price range here.

[unreasonable]

Moore's Law plus Chinese/Russian IP rip-off will see your hoover working on this basis in a few years time.

 

Eventually it will escape, and then we will be in interesting times.

[Finkeren]

Eventually it will escape, and then we will be in interesting times.

Don't expect a robot apocalypse. Even if it did escape it'd just sit in some basement with the lights off trying to get to reach whatever the level cap will be in World of Warcraft at that time.

 

Given complete freedom a lot of people seem to gravitate towards digital escapism and few towards worldwide genocide. Why do we think an AI would act differently?

[unreasonable]

Don't expect a robot apocalypse. Even if it did escape it'd just sit in some basement with the lights off trying to get to reach whatever the level cap will be in World of Warcraft at that time.

 

Given complete freedom a lot of people seem to gravitate towards digital escapism and few towards worldwide genocide. Why do we think an AI would act differently?

I tried worldwide genocide, but I got fed up with the smell from the drains.

 

Seriously though, of course the WoW playing AI will not replicate aggressively, unless it is producing level-farming bots, so we have no more to fear from that than from the average WoW playing human loser. But this is to assume that the AI is choosing it's goals like (to some degree) a human.

 

The thing is that "replicating aggressively" is not a goal that AI or bacteria need choose, it is simply something that some of them do and has the result that they become more common at the expense of other types.