Category: Spurious investigations
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In this article Robin Hill suggests something that may seem both obvious and strange at the same time: that our artificial intelligence systems might not cut the world up in the same way we do, or that they may not use the same features to cluster concepts as we do.…
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Are there some commons that we should protect that we are just not aware of? Well, for the longest time the idea that there was a “climate” to protect was not obvious to people – and the overall discussion we now have about climate change required a concept to focus…
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Let’s say that we want to understand if a certain system or phenomenon is exhibiting human-level intelligence. What would we then look for? There are multitudes of such tests, and they look for a great variety of things. One catalogue of such tests is BIG-bench, a battery of task tests…
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Here is a common thought model: artificial intelligence will become more and more intelligent, and reach human capability. At that point it becomes something like an artificial general intelligence and some time after that it will use that intelligence to bootstrap itself into an artificial super intelligence. The model then…
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In considering the potential for an ethology of artificial intelligence (AI), we are venturing into uncharted territory. The idea of observing and studying AI behavior as we would an animal’s seems, at first glance, to be an attempt to anthropo- or biomorphize technology. However, as AI systems like large language…
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One of the most common, yet unexamined, concepts in technology policy is the idea of a “pace of technical development”. Usually, it is described as “fast” and taken to mean that we need to make interventions in a timely manner. This is all good and well, but what does it…