05: The Likelihood and Risks of Superintelligent Machines
The World as You’ll Know It: The Great Rebuild
Are We Going to Lose Control?
We create machines that are designed to optimize some objective. And then we specify the objective and off it goes. That sounds kind of reasonable because it's sort of what we do with each other, right? When we get into a taxi and ask the driver to take us to the airport, being at the airport is not the complete definition of the objective. So this idea that you get an AI system to do what you want is tell it what you want. It doesn't work the same way because the AI system doesn't already share this whole background of understanding about all the other things you care about besides being at the Airport.
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