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Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

49 points · 90 comments · roversx

  1. jonplackett · · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t really understand how anyone believes we can control ai that becomes cleverer than us.

    It’s like 10 monkeys trying to keep a human being a prisoner.

    It’s just not going to work is it.

    The entire meaning of being more intelligent is being able to outwit and out-think people less intelligent.

    1. RandomLensman · · focus · HN ↗
      Humans can control all the simpler organisms that make up most of the earth biomass?
      1. jonplackett · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes but this is exactly my point - that is BECAUSE we are more intelligent than them.

        We think we can introduce something cleverer than us and still control it. That makes no sense.

        1. defrost · · focus · HN ↗
          > BECAUSE we are more intelligent than them.

          We therefore control all the ants, all the bees, all the tiny living dumber things that are too small for us to see ...

          That's not actually true though, is it?

          1. jonplackett · · focus · HN ↗
            Doesn’t this just make it even worse? Like we can’t even control things LESS I telligent than us so what hope do we have to control something MORE intelligent?
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