AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable
Roman V. Yampolskiy. CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series, February 2024, 250 pp. [publisher]
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Artificial-Intelligence
Of Models and Tin Men: Principal-Agent Problems in AI Alignment
Steve Phelps, Rebecca Ranson. “Of Models and Tin Men: A Behavioural Economics Study of Principal-Agent Problems in AI Alignment using Large-Language Models”. arXiv:2307.11137, July 2023 [preprint]
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The Machine Psychology of Cooperation
Steve Phelps, Yvan I. Russell. “The Machine Psychology of Cooperation: Can GPT Models Operationalise Prompts for Altruism, Cooperation, Competitiveness and Selfishness in Economic Games?” arXiv:2305.07970, May 2023, revised June 2024 [preprint]
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The Singularity is Back
An open letter orchestrated by the Future of Life Institute calling for a six months moratorium on research in artificial intelligence, quoting risks attached to ‘the loss of control’ over self-improving AI. The experts — and cosignatories such as opinionated oligarchs notwithstanding — insist that the risks are both existential and imminent. The Singularity is back in
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Five More Lessons About Documentation: A follow-up to Mark Birch’s “Developer Documentation”
Last week’s DevBizOps blog entry (“Developer Documentation: Developers don’t like writing docs, what’s the alternative?“) asked: How programmers can get their answers from documentation, and are there alternatives? As ever Mark’s post advises on questions every developer has to ask in understanding software. Open source or proprietary, documentation is necessary either for using, extending, or
Sterling’s Flash Crash was long overdue—and there will be many more
Researchers at Sapience.org foresee market instability intensifying by the computer trading ‘arms race’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Protected: Research Proposal: The Disruptive Impact of AI on Future Conflicts
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Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-03 Author: Roman V. Yampolskiy Cybersecurity research involves publishing papers about malicious exploits as much as publishing information on how to design tools to protect cyber-infrastructure. It is this information exchange between ethical hackers and security experts, which results in a well-balanced cyber-ecosystem. In the blooming domain of AI Safety Engineering, hundreds
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The Singularity Controversy: 3 years later
A London Futurists Meetup 14 May 2016, 14:00–16:00, Birbeck College
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Energetics of the Brain and AI
Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-02 Author: Anders Sandberg Does the energy requirements for the human brain give energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? In Energetics of the Brain & AI I review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the methods of estimating brain emulation energy requirements.
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