ChatGPT4-Questions-Discussion01
Interface questions
I define interface as the machine-to-human point of interaction and context of the interaction. By way of clarification we interpret take the position that ChatGPT4 is a tool specifically designed and implemented to assist in performing cognitive tasks. We therefore characterize it as being a Cognitive Prosthetic (CP).
We interpret this to mean that an interface is a way whereby an individual or community is able to interact with a CP. The results of the interaction can be
- low bandwidth (typing, screen output)
- high bandwidth (audio, video, multimedia and machine-to-machine asynchronous interaction or
- any combination between these two
By way of example we interpret interaction with a CP to be mean:
- Social Segments: (i.e. communities): e.g. a political group interacting with a CP = CP to segment of society or... e.g. a community;
- Universal Access: CP to all of society = open access via world wide web;
- Specialists: CP to financial specialists = one/many financial specialists;
INTERFACING Q1: What are the planned and legitimate interfaces for AI into human societies?
A: Current and foreseen interfaces suggest high bandwidth interaction;
We believe that high bandwidth interaction will be the norm; these interaction protocols will be reflective of the user domains of expertise;
- Chemists. Chemistry community members will evolve interface modalities that reflect analysis and problem solving of chemical compounds and structures;
- Proteomic researchers. Genomic and protein analysis will reflect interactions that represent protein structures, composition and folding properties;
- Philosophers - Moral or Ethical. A typical discourse in philosophy will be dominated by narrative text. Therefore it is reasonable to expect that the most sophisticated interaction that this community might use can be limited to textual content.
User community interaction will track sophistication of the user community. The more representationally sophisticated the user community the more sophisticated the interface used to interact with the CP; Less sophisticated users will require less sophisticated responses; however no upper limit on the sophistication of the modalities that a CP can offer;
INTERFACING Q2: Are interface limits being set for any given project, or can the AI access unplanned interfaces?
INTERFACING A2.1 No Supporting Evidence. Current reports suggest no limitations on how a CP can be accessed;
currently access to CG4 is via low bandwidth, typed input and output;
recent add-in modules allow for voice input and output; but these are also low bandwidth;
reports on the CGP4 system itself indicate that it is capable of accepting visual image input;
specific users will use representations specific to their own objectives;
INTERFACING A2.2 Widening access. Recent reports have shown that user specific data can be directly input to a CG4 interface via uploading routines that can handle reports that are structured input such as PDF format. Others are expected to follow;
INTERFACING Q3: Are there certain interfaces that fundamentally change the dangers and risks to be expected from AIs?
INTERFACING Q4: Are interfaces leaky, i.e., where the AI could have downstream effects into society further than with the humans it is directly interacting with?
INTERFACING Q5: Are risks coming from leaky interfaces fundamentally different? What are their specific characteristics?
Evolutionary problems
Q: Can an AI favor, through any of its outputs, the evolutionary fitness of a part of humanity over another?
Q: Is a given AI capable of initiating a phenotypic revolution?
Political Problems
If an AI is given axiomatic moral principles, how does it approach moral disagreements within humanity about these principles. For instance, if an AI is asked to maximize the saving of human life in a particular problem, how does it approach the problem of saving human lives of people who differ by age, if the AI has not been given axiomatic moral principles indicating preferences based on age?
Q: If an AI is given axiomatic moral principles, are these principles subject to disagreement within society?
Epistemological problems
Q: Is a given AI always truthful in its responses or can it hide objectives or truths to its interface?
Q: Are there mechanisms of self-deception that are present in humanity and not in AI that could lead an AI to radically different conclusions than a human would faced with the same facts?
Q: Should such self-deception mechanisms be implemented in AI?
Epistemological problems
Q: How should an AI approach the problem of truths on which not all humans agree?
Are risks coming from leaky interfaces fundamentally different? What are their specific characteristics?
Evolutionary problems
Can an AI favor, through any of its outputs, the evolutionary fitness of a part of humanity over another?
Is a given AI capable of initiating a phenotypic revolution?
Political Problems
If an AI is given axiomatic moral principles, how does it approach moral disagreements within humanity about these principles. For instance, if an AI is asked to maximize the saving of human life in a particular problem, how does it approach the problem of saving human lives of people who differ by age, if the AI has not been given axiomatic moral principles indicating preferences based on age?
If an AI is given axiomatic moral principles, are these principles subject to disagreement within society?
Epistemological problems
Q: How should an AI approach the problem of truths on which not all humans agree?
Q: Is a given AI always truthful in its responses or can it hide objectives or truths to its interface?
Q: Are there mechanisms of self-deception that are present in humanity and not in AI that could lead an AI to radically different conclusions than a human would faced with the same facts?
Q: Should such self-deception mechanisms be implemented in AI?