When did Stuart J. Russell publish Human Compatible?
Stuart J. Russell published Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control in 2019.
Stuart J. Russell published Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control in 2019.
Russell argues that safety research must begin immediately because the timeline for developing superintelligent systems is highly uncertain. He proposes a new approach where machines defer to humans rather than achieving rigid goals, ensuring their true objective remains uncertain until they gain more information about human preferences.
A machine infers a reward function from observed behavior using this method to learn human preferences indirectly. This framework requires assigning some probability to every logically possible human preference even if that probability is quite small.
Reviewers from The Guardian, Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The Times praised the work as convincing or significant. Ian Sample called it the most important book on artificial intelligence that year while Richard Waters noted its bracing intellectual rigour.
David Leslie wrote for Nature stating Russell failed to convince readers that a second intelligent species would ever arrive. Melanie Mitchell published doubts in a New York Times opinion essay questioning if a machine could surpass human generality without losing speed or precision.