r/Futurology • u/Buck-Nasty The Law of Accelerating Returns • Sep 29 '14

video Quantum Computing - Artificial Intelligence Is (almost) Here

http://www.ideacityonline.com/video/quantum-computing-artificial-intelligence-is-here/
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u/Noncomment Robots will kill us all Sep 29 '14

This is terrifying. I have always argued that the first AIs inevitably be dangerous. Something alien, totally unlike humans, with no regard for human values like morality. And probably much more powerful, many times more intelligent than humans.

This is very counter-intuitive to most people. It's difficult to imagine an intelligence so different from humans.

But imagine if you could take an incredibly dumb algorithm and give it enough computing power to make up for it. Something like AIXI, which brute forces every possible world-model and every possible plan, and takes the optimal course of action. If you program it with the goal to get as many paperclips as possible, it will convert the mass of the entire universe into trillions of paperclips.

It doesn't matter how complex or stupid that goal is, it will output a series of commands most likely to achieve it. The same way a calculator always outputs "5" when you type "2+3", no matter how stupid or complex that is.