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Re:Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with ... by taneq on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:56PM (#16434836)
If they meet the spec, they're not stupid solutions, it's a stupid spec.
Re:Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with ... by deong on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:15PM (#16468586)
The problem is that we generally rely on human intelligence to fill in gaps in specs that are really not stupid for a human. AI will exploit gaps that a human would basically say aren't there until they see evidence to the contrary.

So we can say that's a bad spec if we like, but what's the answer that leads to? I don't need an AI if I can just declare all users must be really good programmers spending their days writing unambiguous specs. That wasn't really the goal of the AI though.

Re:Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with ... by candiodari on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:46AM (#16435945)
Unfortunately, when gaming metrics has real world consequences (and this is of course the whole point of those metrics, assuming they're not gamed), then things like 2008 happens, and tens of thousands of people lose their homes.