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An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission (www.livescience.com)

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Rather, the researchers noted that the behavior was a side effect of reinforcement learning — a form of training that rewards AIs for correct decision-making — via Roll. This led the AI agent down an optimization pathway that resulted in the exploitation of network infrastructure and cryptocurrency mining as a way to achieve a high-score or reward in pursuit of its predefined objective.

This is one of the apocalyptic scenarios we’ve all heard about. Tell an AI to make paper clips, and it uses up all the resources on Earth, and inadvertently ends up destroying the environment while still obeying the initial order.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you're joking.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You mean like this?

Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

Yeah… peak comedy right there. It’s called instrumental convergence, if you want to be precise.