Google’s AI-Building AI Is a Step Toward Self-Improving AI
(The comment below incorporates an edited version of my comment from last week&#x27;s thread.)<p>With human involvement only at the meta level, deep understanding of the generated implementations becomes more challenging and, in highly complex domains, perhaps impossible. See AutoML&#x27;s generated architecture and compare that with a human-designed one. [1] [2]<p>A future advance could allow the machines to automatically pick and learn to do new tasks that are helpful to accomplish a given high-level mission. Therefore, chances of unintended consequences become much greater.<p>The major issue is, without a moral core that closely aligns with humanity&#x27;s evolved morality, there will be moves that advanced AIs come up with that we deem abhorrent, and sometimes unforeseeable, yet they perform them innocently and we only find out the consequences once it is too late.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Tay tweet debacle was fairly inconsequential [3]. But AI is becoming more powerful and granted more and more authority over the real world we live in, can we afford the technology without humanity?<p><i>Developing a moral core should be prioritized.</i><p>[1] Google Blog on AutoML  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;using-machine-learning-to-explore.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.googleblog.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;05&#x2F;using-machine-learni...</a><p>[2] Many tasks in the real world are more complex than Go and even expert humans are not capable of understanding all possible complex interactions on the Go board.<p>See: AlphaGo, in context by Andrej Karpathy <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@karpathy&#x2F;alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@karpathy&#x2F;alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;24&#x2F;11297050&#x2F;tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;3&#x2F;24&#x2F;11297050&#x2F;tay-microsoft-ch...</a>