Are we in an AI Overhang?

Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by simonh on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:52PM (#23966880)

The example of simple arithmetic is interesting. I think you might be right, that is evidence that GPT-3 might be generating what we might consider models of it's input data. Very simple, primitive and fragile models, but yes that's a start. Thank you.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by klipt on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:11PM (#23968348)

A disembodied AI with a really good model might be able to do good theoretical science, but it would still need a way of acting in the physical world to do experimental science.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by Veedrac on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:35PM (#23969136)

With a sufficiently effective language model it would be fairly easy to bridge this model, by letting the text direct humans on the other side.

    Hypothesis: <AI writes this>
    Results: <human observations>
    <repeat>

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by endgame on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:27PM (#23969583)

That seems like a _very bad_ habit to get humans into.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by falcor84 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:08AM (#23985722)

Well, we already have tons of examples of computers telling humans what to do, e.g. autogenerated emails alerting a human to handle an issue.

The novel Manna explores where this can lead quite nicely - http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

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