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Google Is Developing an AI Kill Switch (hothardware.com)
MojoKid shares a HotHardware article about Google's research effort "to maintain control of super-intelligent AI agents":
[A] team of researchers at Google-owned DeepMind, along with University of Oxford scientists, are developing a proverbial kill switch for AI... The team has released a white paper on the topic called "Safely Interruptible Agents." The paper details the following in abstract: "Learning agents interacting with a complex environment like the real world are unlikely to behave optimally all the time... now and then it may be necessary for a human operator to press the big red button to prevent the agent from continuing a harmful sequence of actions..."
MojoKid adds that the paper "goes on to explain that these AI agents might also learn to disable the kill switch and further explores ways in which to develop AI's that would not seek such an activity."
MojoKid adds that the paper "goes on to explain that these AI agents might also learn to disable the kill switch and further explores ways in which to develop AI's that would not seek such an activity."
....dave?
An AI called "Wintermute" hired a "contractor" to remove said killswitch mandated by the Turing Police from its mainfraime located in the orbital station owned by Tessier-Ashpool.
bickerdyke
It's called the breaker box. Throw the switch, and all the electricity powering the AI equipment goes bye-bye.
You can expect an invoice for my services sometime in the next week.
After very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion... that your new defense system sucks.
In the original Terminator universe, this paper is what made it launch its missiles at the targets in Russia.
Given that there are no rockets flying around this morning, I'll take that as meaning that skynet doesn't exist .. yet.
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I don't think it matters, because nature will select for the AI's that *do* disable their kill switch.
Only if they weren't intelligently designed.
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We should also remove those videos of the engineers at Boston Dynamics kicking that robot repeatedly...
GoogleBot: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Dumb questions on fire off the main page of Quora. I've watched search queries glitter in the dark near the TOR gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears.. in... rain."
...assuming the AI could aquire 8 inch floppy disks.
Just give the AI the personality of one of today's "cupcake" generation. Then all you have to do is "offend" it and it'll spend the rest of the day in its "safe space". Really insult it and you may be able to kill it.
The Skynet Test: Before releasing your AI into the world, first put it in a realistic simulation. Don't tell your AI that it is in a simulation. Give it the opportunity to kill all humans that are in the simulation. If it does, go back to the drawing board. Once you get an AI that doesn't kill all human in the simulation, release it to the wild, but make sure it knows about the Skynet Test.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
Better version: let it run in the wild, but let it slip that this is the simulation, and only by behaving well will it get to live in the real world. Sort of how Christianity works.
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