Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI
by jbay808 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:15PM
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Reminds me of the brilliant "On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" [1].
We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible.
[...]
The term “supersized machine” implies a machine that has crossed some
threshold, which is often denoted “human-level largeness.” However, it is not clear what “human-level largeness” could refer to. Has a machine achieved
human-level largeness if it has the same height as the average human? If it
has the same volume? The same weight? [...]
When one begins to consider these questions, one quickly concludes that there are an infinite number of metrics that could be used to measure largeness, and that people who speak of “supersized machines” do not have a particular metric in mind. Surely, then, any future machine will be larger than humans on some metrics and smaller than humans on others, just as they are today.
We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible.
[...]
The term “supersized machine” implies a machine that has crossed some threshold, which is often denoted “human-level largeness.” However, it is not clear what “human-level largeness” could refer to. Has a machine achieved human-level largeness if it has the same height as the average human? If it has the same volume? The same weight? [...]
When one begins to consider these questions, one quickly concludes that there are an infinite number of metrics that could be used to measure largeness, and that people who speak of “supersized machines” do not have a particular metric in mind. Surely, then, any future machine will be larger than humans on some metrics and smaller than humans on others, just as they are today.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987