mar234’s Reviews > The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values > Status Update

„We are now, it is fair to say, well beyond the point where our machines can do only that which we can program into them in the explicit language of math and code.”

“We have parents and teachers, sure, who can correct our spelling and pronunciation and, occasionally, our behavior. But this hardly covers a fraction of what we do and say and think, and the authorities in our life do not always agree. Moreover, it is one of the central rites of passage of the human condition that we must learn to make these judgments by our own lights and for ourselves.”

“Human behavior seems to be subject to some degree of predictability.”

“Though they range widely in complexity—from something that might fit on a spreadsheet on the one hand, to something that might credibly be called ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE on the other—they are steadily replacing both human judgment and explicitly programmed software of the more traditional variety.”