One of the spookier parts of Roman Yampolskiy ‘s great book “AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable” is the argument that eventually we will reach a state where AI is able to make astoundingly accurate predictions and unable to provide a justification that humans can comprehend. It will be like everything the AI does is quantum mechanics level weird: undeniably empirically accurate, totally incomprehensible. But instead of mere nature being this way, it will be an intelligence other than humanity increasingly making more and more decisions about humanity’s future. That’s the yucky part.
I have been playing around with some AI tools asking questions like "what is a scientific discovery that should be completely obvious to the human race but we haven't put all the pieces together yet but definitely should have?" I haven't gotten a mind-blowing answer yet but every time a new version of something comes out I try variations of this question because I'm always curious whether there's some thing we're totally missing that might be completely obvious to an outside observer that lacks human cognitive biases.
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6moThat definitely raises some chill vibes. If AI becomes that unpredictable, it could get super uncomfortable for sure. What do you think we should do about it?