On Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 8:12 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:01 AM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> .... We want to be controlled. We are spending trillions on making it >> happen. >> > > "We" > > https://youtu.be/BVLvQcO7JGk > I didn't read "We" but I did read "1984", the book it inspired. The part it got right was the surveillance. The part it got wrong was how it would be used to control people. We want AI to watch us because it works better that way. We let banks track our spending because credit cards and online shopping are more convenient than cash. We let Google track our movements in return for driving directions that avoid traffic. We let Amazon listen to everything we say so we can turn on lights in another room and play music. The illusions of qualia, consciousness, and free will are the result of internal positive reinforcement of perception, thinking, and action, respectively. These illusions evolved so you would have a reason to live, thus producing more offspring. When you are controlled by external positive reinforcement, it strengthens the illusion of free will. Wolpert's law says that a computer cannot predict its own output (the special case of two computers being unable to model each other when they are identical). Just because you can't predict your own actions doesn't mean an AI that knows more about you than you do can't predict them. You will reliably choose the action you believe will result in the greatest reward because it was rewarded in the past. Just like video recognition and video generation are inverse functions of each other, so are prediction and control. Prediction is a function that inputs the past and outputs the future. Control is a function that inputs the future and outputs the past. We will have our utopia. We don't want to stop it. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbf01a18ffdd0cf7e-M9ffa0717b49db443a99d26cb Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
