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| Online search: Online search is the process of finding information on the internet. It is done using search engines, which are websites that allow users to enter keywords or phrases and then return a list of relevant websites. See also Search engines, Internet, Social Media, Google._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nick Bostrom on Online Search - Dictionary of Arguments
I 186 Search/superintelligence/Bostrom: With advances in artificial intelligence, it would become possible for the programmer to offload more of the cognitive labor required to figure out how to accomplish a given task. In an extreme case, the programmer would simply specify a formal criterion of what counts as success and leave it to the AI to find a solution. To guide its search, the AI would use a set of powerful heuristics and other methods to discover structure in the space of possible solutions. I 187 We would enter the danger zone only when the methods used in the search for solutions become extremely powerful and general: that is, when they begin to amount to general intelligence - and especially when they begin to amount to superintelligence. There are (at least) two places where trouble could then arise. (1) The superintelligent search process might find a solution that is not just unexpected but radically unintended. (2) If the methods that the software uses to search for a solution are sufficiently sophisticated, they may include provisions for managing the search process itself in an intelligent manner. In this case, the machine running the software may begin to seem less like a mere tool and more like an agent. I 188 (…) open-ended search processes sometimes evince strange and unexpected non-anthropocentric solutions even in their currently limited forms I 189 E.g., The evolved designs often show remarkable economy. For instance, one search discovered a frequency discrimination circuit that functioned without a clock - a component normally considered necessary for this function. E.g., Another search process, tasked with creating an oscillator, was deprived of a seemingly even more indispensible component, the capacitor. >Superintelligence/Bostrom._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bostrom I Nick Bostrom Superintelligence. Paths, Dangers, Strategies Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27