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Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? (Patreon)

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2018-12-22 16:24:31
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Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it?

In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences?

https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw

This video was inspired by a conversation I recently had with a patron, by the way, so do keep sending me your comments, thoughts, and suggestions!

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Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?

Corporations are kind of like AIs, if you squint. How hard do you have to squint though, and is it worth it? In this video we ask: Are corporations artificial general superintelligences? Related: "What can AGI do? I/O and Speed" (https://youtu.be/gP4ZNUHdwp8) "Why Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence" (https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q) Media Sources: "SpaceX - How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" (https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ) Undertale - Turbosnail Clerks (1994) Zootopia (2016) AlphaGo (2017) Ready Player One (2018) With thanks to my excellent Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/robertskmiles Jordan Medina Jason Hise Pablo Eder Scott Worley JJ Hepboin Pedro A Ortega James McCuen Richárd Nagyfi Phil Moyer Alec Johnson Bobby Cold Clemens Arbesser Simon Strandgaard Jonatan R Michael Greve The Guru Of Vision David Tjäder Julius Brash Tom O'Connor Erik de Bruijn Robin Green Laura Olds Jon Halliday Paul Hobbs Jeroen De Dauw Tim Neilson Eric Scammell Igor Keller Ben Glanton Robert Sokolowski Jérôme Frossard Sean Gibat Sylvain Chevalier DGJono robertvanduursen Scott Stevens Dmitri Afanasjev Brian Sandberg Marcel Ward Andrew Weir Ben Archer Scott McCarthy Kabs Kabs Kabs Tendayi Mawushe Jannik Olbrich Anne Kohlbrenner Jussi Männistö Mr Fantastic Wr4thon Dave Tapley Archy de Berker Kevin Marc Pauly Joshua Pratt Gunnar Guðvarðarson Shevis Johnson Andy Kobre Brian Gillespie Martin Wind Peggy Youell Poker Chen Kees Darko Sperac Truls Paul Moffat Anders Öhrt Lupuleasa Ionuț Marco Tiraboschi Michael Kuhinica Fraser Cain Robin Scharf Oren Milman John Rees Shawn Hartsock Seth Brothwell Brian Goodrich Michael S McReynolds Clark Mitchell Kasper Schnack Michael Hunter Klemen Slavic Patrick Henderson https://www.patreon.com/robertskmiles

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Poker Chen

Oh neat, I mentioned the reverse concept to a friend earlier in the year not having read anything about it. The point being, seeing the EU flag at the 14:00 mark, I don't think we can successfully regulate a supernational corporation. It's like making safety rules for the AGI. Instead we might want to take a cue from AI alignment research, and figure out ways for align the goals of such corporations more closely to the future wellbeing of our species. Particularly for corporations working on AGI, an aligned corporation is less likely to design a mis-aligned agent.

Mr. Duck

I think the proposed model is ignoring very important aspect of the corporations: amplification of productivity in groups due to information exchange. A scientist will be much more productive in a highly competent group of peers (like Google Brain research team) than as an isolated individual. This will push distribution to superhuman. This is where "breadth" graph is incorrect.