No, their argument for open AI leading to positive AI is as follows in their own words.
"If I’m Dr. Evil and I use it, won’t you be empowering me? Musk: I think that’s an excellent question and it’s something that we debated quite a bit. Altman: There are a few different thoughts about this. Just like humans protect against Dr. Evil by the fact that most humans are good, and the collective force of humanity can contain the bad elements, we think its far more likely that *many, many AIs, will work to stop the occasional bad actors* than the idea that there is a single AI a billion times more powerful than anything else. If that one thing goes off the rails or if Dr. Evil gets that one thing and there is nothing to counteract it, then we’re really in a bad place." https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-to-stop-computers-from-taking-over-17e0e27dd02a#.aojim3ery Their rationale for making this openly available, is the belief that doing so would result in many AGI's which would compete with each other and in this way provide protection from one single super intelligence from taking over. On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding AI Safety: > > The argument appears to be that open source means the public can > examine the AI's source code in advance for potential dangerous > behavior, I think. I haven't read the expanded argument Ben links to. > > It seems intuitively to me that if the AI is truly autonomous, > learning and thinking on its own, creating new thought structures > dynamically, etc etc, it would go far beyond what happened to be in > its source code to start off with, so I'm not sure how much of an > advantage is to be gained just by virtue of the code being public in > terms of safety alone. There would be an advantage, no doubt, but > remember we are talking about AI which is essentially less defined and > coded in advance that our more typical applications which are open > sourced. > > > Mike A > > On 12/13/15, colin hales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Prediction: Without a significant overhaul of their strategy, that > $Billion > > will create another stratum in the 65+ years of layers of narrow-AI. > Deeper > > into the niches. Useful.... But ... > > > > Deep automation (their 'digital intelligence') is not AGI. > > > > How many years more before the 65 year old, many-$Billion experiment > (that > > AGI involves computers) is found suspect enough to spend, say, $11.37 on > the > > obvious alternative? > > > > End of year gripe. Am about to turn 60. My curmudgeon index is redlining. > > > > :) > > Colin > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: "Ben Goertzel" <[email protected]> > > Sent: 14/12/2015 2:21 PM > > To: "AGI" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [agi] Elon Musk Helps Launch OpenAI, Non-Profit Dedicated > > toArtificial Intelligence - Funding: 1 billion USD > > > > > > > > My first thoughts on OpenAi are here: > > > > > > http://wp.goertzel.org/openai-quick-thoughts/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://futurism.com/links/19499/ > > > > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ben Goertzel, PhD > > http://goertzel.org > > > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > > depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > > > > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > AGI > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > > Modify Your Subscription: > > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
