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You've got this normative halo around "intelligence". All intelligence is, is an agent's ability to satisfy its utility function. >But if it continues to work
by JamesArgo 12y ago
You've got this normative halo around "intelligence". All intelligence is, is an agent's ability to satisfy its utility function.
>But if it continues to work on the paper clips and decides that they are still needed even after people are gone - how is that super intelligent?
That is the correct action if all it cares about is making paperclips. Creating paperclips satisfies its utility function. Fretting over the existential issues of creating paperclips long after the last piece of stationary was destroyed would be judged of negative utility.
- mariusz79 12y agoIs Ebola virus intelligent? It has a goal - reproduce - and it's trying to maximize it through any means available to it.I don't think we can say that the virus is intelligent. If it continues to evolve, at some point in time it could potential (highly unlikely but still possible) become intelligent, but will it become self-aware at this point? And if it does will it still want to replicate uncontrollably or will, just like humans, decide the it needs to better manage it's environment?