(Adapted by Jason Andrews at https://twitter.com/PersuasionRisng)
There are two types of AI:
- those trained on human examples- those given rules and told to figure things out on their own.
Everything we have seen so far is the former kind.
Why does this matter?
Let me tell you a story…. There is a game called Go that is similar to othello. It’s popular in Asia, chess-like in its mental demands.
AI researchers trained a computer on the best games of human players and told it to play against itself a few million times.
That AI beat the best human players in the world.
Then the researchers gave another AI nothing but the rules of Go - a few lines of code - and told it to play against itself many millions of times.
Then they matched the AI’s against each other.
What do you think happened?
The self-trained AI beat the human-trained AI 100-0.
It was clear the AI trained on human examples would never beat the self-trained AI.
So what does this mean for the AI we see now?
Everything we see now is human-trained. They give the AI human-made writings, human-written problems and answers, human-created art to copy.
Its starting point is the best that humans have come up with so far.
So this A...
