Artificial Intelligence
The End Of The World with Josh Clark
Paper-Clip Maximizing AI
Say a company creates an AI that can run its paper-clip factory. The programmer just gives the AI the primary objective, its goal, of making as many paper-clips as possible. But when the AI becomes super-intelligent it finds new ways to make more paper-clips. It realizes at some point that if it could somehow take over the world, that would be a whole lot of more paper-tips in the future than if it just keeps running this single paper- Clip factory.
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