Difference between revisions of "Missing gear vs secret sauce"
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I want to distinguish between the following two framings: | I want to distinguish between the following two framings: | ||
| − | * missing gear/[[one wrong number problem]]: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities. | + | * [[Missing gear for intelligence|missing gear]]/[[one wrong number problem]]/step function/understanding is discontinuous/[https://aiimpacts.org/likelihood-of-discontinuous-progress-around-the-development-of-agi/#Payoff_thresholds payoff thresholds]: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities. |
* [[secret sauce for intelligence]]/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is). | * [[secret sauce for intelligence]]/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is). | ||
| − | I'm not sure how different these two actually are. But when thinking about discontinuities, I've noticed that this is a | + | I'm not sure how different these two actually are. But when thinking about discontinuities, I've noticed that I am somewhat inconsistent about conflating these two and distinctly visualizing them. |
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| + | ! Term !! Is the final piece a big breakthrough? !! Nature of final piece !! Found by humans or found by AI? !! Length of lead time prior to final piece !! Number of pieces !! Explanation | ||
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| + | | Missing gear || Not necessarily. I think this term is somewhat ambiguous about whether the final piece is expected to be big vs small. || | ||
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| + | | Secret sauce || Yes || || || || Small number, possibly one? || | ||
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| + | | One wrong number function / Step function || | ||
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| + | | Understanding is discontinuous || Not necessarily || Restricts the final piece to be about understanding, where the AI goes from "not understanding" to "understanding" something. || | ||
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| + | | Payoff thresholds || Not necessarily || Does not specify || | ||
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| + | | One algorithm<ref>https://aiimpacts.org/likelihood-of-discontinuous-progress-around-the-development-of-agi/#One_algorithm</ref> || Yes || || || || Small number, possibly one? || | ||
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| + | | Lumpy AI progress || Yes || | ||
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| + | | Intelligibility of intelligence || Yes || | ||
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| + | | Simple core algorithm || Yes || | ||
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| + | | Small number of breakthroughs needed for AGI || Yes || || || || Small number (up to around 10?) || | ||
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| + | | Good consequentialist reasoning has low Kolmogorov complexity<ref>https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1228</ref> || Yes || || I think MIRI wants humans to discover this, for the sake of being able to align the AI. But this core of good consequentialist reasoning can also be discovered by a search process (e.g. resulting in a mesa-optimizer). || || Small number? || | ||
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| + | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:AI safety]] | [[Category:AI safety]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:16, 9 June 2020
I want to distinguish between the following two framings:
- missing gear/one wrong number problem/step function/understanding is discontinuous/payoff thresholds: "missing gear" doesn't imply that the last piece added is all that significant -- it just says that adding it caused a huge jump in capabilities.
- secret sauce for intelligence/small number of breakthroughs: "small number of breakthroughs" says that the last added piece must have been a significant piece (which is what a breakthrough is).
I'm not sure how different these two actually are. But when thinking about discontinuities, I've noticed that I am somewhat inconsistent about conflating these two and distinctly visualizing them.
| Term | Is the final piece a big breakthrough? | Nature of final piece | Found by humans or found by AI? | Length of lead time prior to final piece | Number of pieces | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missing gear | Not necessarily. I think this term is somewhat ambiguous about whether the final piece is expected to be big vs small. | |||||
| Secret sauce | Yes | Small number, possibly one? | ||||
| One wrong number function / Step function | ||||||
| Understanding is discontinuous | Not necessarily | Restricts the final piece to be about understanding, where the AI goes from "not understanding" to "understanding" something. | ||||
| Payoff thresholds | Not necessarily | Does not specify | ||||
| One algorithm[1] | Yes | Small number, possibly one? | ||||
| Lumpy AI progress | Yes | |||||
| Intelligibility of intelligence | Yes | |||||
| Simple core algorithm | Yes | |||||
| Small number of breakthroughs needed for AGI | Yes | Small number (up to around 10?) | ||||
| Good consequentialist reasoning has low Kolmogorov complexity[2] | Yes | I think MIRI wants humans to discover this, for the sake of being able to align the AI. But this core of good consequentialist reasoning can also be discovered by a search process (e.g. resulting in a mesa-optimizer). | Small number? |
