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#312 - The Trouble with AI

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Too Much Drift and Too Much Exploration of the Space

I think we're both on the same side of that question. And then getting away from the other part of the dominant paradigm, which is this idea that an AI system is given a specified perfectly known objective up front and then just optimizes it. So you get this property that adding uncertainty about human preferences leads to greater reluctance to act on the part of the machine. The more uncertainty, the less the system acts at all, right? If it doesn't know anything about what humans want, then this is actually an interesting theoretical paper that we wrote,. I take that actually as a feature, not a bug.

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