One Happy Path for AI Is Healthy Business Competition

TL;DR Much of this is knowingly "duh". Evolution works through variation, competition, failure, pruning, adaptation, and no permanent winner. Businesses already work much the same way: large enterprises provide scale, challengers pressure them, startups try strange things, many fail, and some failures leave behind knowledge that feeds the next attempt. None of that is new. … Continue reading One Happy Path for AI Is Healthy Business Competition →

Even ASI Cannot Escape Imperfect Information

TL;DR AI does not need to become superintelligent, reach the singularity, whatever, to create serious risks. The deeper problem is that no intelligence operates with perfect information. Better models can reason faster and make better inferences, but they are limited in conjuring facts that are missing, hidden, stale, deceptive, or unknowable. That has been obvious … Continue reading Even ASI Cannot Escape Imperfect Information →