Preamble This post is my attempt to try and organise some thinking about AI alignment in a way that will act as a partial-overview to the core ideas and approaches. It is mostly a review of existing ideas arranged with some light opinions thrown in. I do not expect the...
Introduction This piece seeks to explore an interesting way of defining intelligent systems such that we can theoretically quantify their general intelligence. From this, further tools and ideas for comparing these entities could be developed. The definitions are not meant to be philosophical truths, rather they are meant to be...
This post is my attempt to try and organise some thinking about AI alignment in a way that will act as a partial-overview to the core ideas and approaches. It is mostly a review of existing ideas arranged with some light opinions thrown in. I do not expect the content to be particularly new to LessWrong readers, the novelty is in trying to organise existing ideas into one cohesive mental framework that can help scaffold thinking about alignment and AI safety broadly, as well as act as a high-level resource for reference and introduction to those who are new to the field. If there is anything you think I missed and would like to see... (read 3264 more words →)
This piece seeks to explore an interesting way of defining intelligent systems such that we can theoretically quantify their general intelligence. From this, further tools and ideas for comparing these entities could be developed. The definitions are not meant to be philosophical truths, rather they are meant to be useful tools that will allow us to analyse and gain insight into these systems and how they relate to one another. At least that's the hope, failing that they can perhaps at least provide some food for thought.
This post is meant to be accessible to non-technical readers so some terms may be explained to a level of detail unnecessary for people familiar with machine learning.
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