Mapping Common Sense
All the reading and writing we have done on the Internet must have made us collectively smarter since its inception, but it isn't readily apparent in today's media. We swim in deep data seas and know little about the sea floor; It isn't mapped very well, or there are too many maps. We need a global definition of what intelligence is, and AI may or may not be it.
Sam Harris refers to it as an "alignment problem", or sussing out how AI gets trained to make distinctions between facts and the various distortions.
"Super-intelligent machines will not be like us and they'll lack the common sense that we understand how to build into them and so the bad things that they might do might be very counterintuitive to us and therefore totally surprising. I think we're misled by the concept of intelligence because when we talk about intelligence we assume that includes things like common sense, and in the space of this concept we insert something fairly anthropomorphic and familiar to us....A superhumanly competent machine or system of machines might behave in ways that would seem completely absurd and yet we will not have closed the door to those absurdities however dangerous if we don't anticipate in advance in order to figure out some generic way to solve this alignment problem." [More...]
In cartography, an example of such a built-in distortion was the Mercator map.
The Bush presidency was the first to use social media. Previous presidents used the Internet, but social media rated or quantified it, and in some way was a metric for measuring (mapping) "common sense", or just what we already knew commonly as "groupthink".
What's the global map for global common sense in a social media environment when none of if makes sense in the first place?
Sam Harris refers to it as an "alignment problem", or sussing out how AI gets trained to make distinctions between facts and the various distortions.
"Super-intelligent machines will not be like us and they'll lack the common sense that we understand how to build into them and so the bad things that they might do might be very counterintuitive to us and therefore totally surprising. I think we're misled by the concept of intelligence because when we talk about intelligence we assume that includes things like common sense, and in the space of this concept we insert something fairly anthropomorphic and familiar to us....A superhumanly competent machine or system of machines might behave in ways that would seem completely absurd and yet we will not have closed the door to those absurdities however dangerous if we don't anticipate in advance in order to figure out some generic way to solve this alignment problem." [More...]
In cartography, an example of such a built-in distortion was the Mercator map.
The Bush presidency was the first to use social media. Previous presidents used the Internet, but social media rated or quantified it, and in some way was a metric for measuring (mapping) "common sense", or just what we already knew commonly as "groupthink".
What's the global map for global common sense in a social media environment when none of if makes sense in the first place?
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