NASA launches a challenge to fund AI systems for future spacecraft – hopefully without HAL-style errors Welcome to this week's roundup of AI-related news. The US military wants AI tech to help find a COVID-19 vaccine: The US Department of Defense plans to spend about $3.8bn – given by Congress through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act – to fund AI research to treat COVID-19. "Funds are required to …
take along with it a modified Tesla Cybertruck
https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-cybertruck-modified-lunar-vehicle/
notwithstanding the fact that it is frigging heavy and will sink into the moon/mars dust.
As Tesla/Space X/Elon are the heroes of the monent the above seems likely and the Tesla Fanbois will go apeshit if the above was true (which it isn't).
Besides who wants a bullet proof vehicle on suppsedly uninhabited worlds? Does NASA know someting that we don't? Does Area 51 really contain Alien spacecraft... Don't we need to know this?
/s /s /s
{this post is not meant to be taken seriously}
...kill us all.
I don't wear a tinfoil hat. Its fine looking into AI but I think we have to be careful with it. Having watched Rob Miles video recently on AI safety and specification gaming.
You'll give the AI a reward for finding a cure for Covid 19. But because the AI is allowed to do its own thing and learn. It will just learn it can just kill everyone to get its reward. If there are no humans to cure, it doesn't have to find a cure but can still claim its reward.
https://youtu.be/nKJlF-olKmg
And below the list of results.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
One of the amusing and scary ones is the agent that would constantly kill itself at the end of level 1 to avoid losing at the end of level 2.
Its not beyond hokey when you look at those models or real AI being given a reward for completion of a task but not being given strict enough instructions not to cheat. Yes, its highly unlikely if we take AI safety serious enough but also not impossible.
And you can never say true General Intelligence AI is impossible. Its highly improbable at the moment but we don't know what we'll invent in the future that may make it possible.
HAL didn't make any errors. It's just that he was given a clumsily-drafted set of orders just before the mission, a set that superceded his original mission and included the order to keep them secret from his crew. The problem was that the people responsible for the secret orders didn't trust the people who actually knew how to program HAL - or evidently simulate the ammended mission with an earthbound instance of HAL, for fear of revealing the secret.
As one who never actually saw the movie until recently and had read the book years ago, I was a little surprised that it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the movie about why HAL went insane.
And while I know that ML is still in it's infancy, we are putting far too much trust in it without fully understanding it's logic.
We really need to make any ML or AI system be Three Laws Compliant before we trust them fully.
The US military wants AI tech to help find a COVID-19 vaccine
We don't need "artificial intelligence" when the problem looks likely to have already been solved by real intelligence (Chadox1 the Oxford vaccine).
Society needs to start valuing human intelligence a fair bit higher than it has to date. Beauty and power are found throughout the solar system, galaxy, and universe. Intelligence, so far as we are able to ascertain, is found only here.
So why does a model earn more than a scientist?
Well, models help sell stuff, which is always an in-demand skill. Scientists--not so much.
And to be fair, models have a far shorter career than scientists.
And models generally look great, which is attractive to people and a cause for inspiration and aspiration in others. Scientists--not so much :)
(Paris would approve.)
Actually, most models earn very little. They usually have to pay for all their travel and accommodation. A catwalk model doing the Paris fashion show, for example, can end up in making little or no money...and that's the one's lucky enough to get picked. The one's that don't, well they've paid a fortune for a week in Paris.
Most of their bread and butter money is doing basic shoots for adverts, clothing companies and other mundane stuff. Think 16 hour days.
Source: I dated a professional make-up model for two years and got to know many other types of model.
Yes, I was punching well above my weight.
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