Difference between revisions of "Missing gear vs secret sauce"
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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 | ! 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 || | + | | 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 || | | Secret sauce || Yes || | ||
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| One wrong number function / Step function || | | One wrong number function / Step function || | ||
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| − | | Understanding is discontinuous || Not necessarily || | + | | 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 || | + | | Payoff thresholds || Not necessarily || Does not specify || |
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| One algorithm || Yes || | | One algorithm || Yes || | ||
Revision as of 20:58, 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 | |||||
| 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 | Yes | |||||
| Lumpy AI progress | Yes | |||||
| Intelligibility of intelligence | Yes | |||||
| Simple core algorithm | Yes | |||||
| Small number of breakthroughs needed for AGI | Yes | |||||
| Good consequentialist reasoning has low Kolmogorov complexity[1] | Yes |
