by stillsut on 4/12/20, 5:11 PM with 11 comments
by andreyk on 4/12/20, 8:02 PM
I'll go ahead and say what I said in that thread again re this article : "Person doing PhD in AI here (Ive seen all of OpenAI's research, been to their office couple times, know some people there) - tbh the piece was a pretty good summary of a lot of quite common somewhat negative takes on OpenAI within research community (such as that they largely do research based on scaling up known ideas, have at times hyped up their work beyond merit, changed their tune to be for profit which is weird given they want to work in the public interest, and that despite calling themselves OpenAI they publish and open source code much less frequently than most labs -- and with profit incentive they will likely publish and open source even less). The original article also presented the positive side (OpenAI is a pretty daring endeavor to try to get AGI by scaling up known techniques as they are, and people there do seem to have their heart in the right place) ."
by timkam on 4/12/20, 7:20 PM
(Note: GPT-2 communications were unfortunate and insincere, but I've witnessed similar, less high-profile communication blunders.)
by haltingproblem on 4/12/20, 9:17 PM
"Soar is a cognitive architecture, originally created by John Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul Rosenbloom at Carnegie Mellon University.
The goal of the Soar project is to develop the fixed computational building blocks necessary for general intelligent agents – agents that can perform a wide range of tasks and encode, use, and learn all types of knowledge to realize the full range of cognitive capabilities found in humans, such as decision making, problem solving, planning, and natural language understanding. It is both a theory of what cognition is and a computational implementation of that theory. Since its beginnings in 1983 as John Laird’s thesis, it has been widely used by AI researchers to create intelligent agents and cognitive models of different aspects of human behavior. The most current and comprehensive description of Soar is the 2012 book, The Soar Cognitive Architecture."
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by blast on 4/12/20, 8:37 PM
by techpop10 on 4/12/20, 8:31 PM
by stereolambda on 4/12/20, 7:46 PM
Let's say that some organization builds an AGI that's conscious and capable of human-like thoughts. There's an argument to be made that at that moment, if we don't immediately grant the AGI personal and political rights of citizens, this organization is essentially owning slaves. Which is contrary to the rules of our societies and never ends well. It seems likely to me that, barring some immediate and fantastical gains from AGI that would allow the organization to "break" the society, it would be soon forfeited as property with no compensation.
Which makes a commercial venture to build AGI a dubious proposition.
by yters on 4/12/20, 7:41 PM