I said it has to manage all communications and do all the work, so no forwarding communications to third party humans. If it can convince other humans in the job to do all its work and coast that way it is fine though.
> Does it have to make more than its total operational expenses, or could I spend ten or hundreds as much as its salary, to afford the compute resources to implement it?
Yes, spend as much as you want on compute, the point is to show some general intelligence and not to make money. So even if this experiment succeeds it will be a ton of work left to do before the singularity, which is why I choose this kind of work as it is a nice middle ground.
> You also haven't indicated how many attempts I could make, per success. Could I, for instance, make tens of thousands of attempts, and if one holds down a job for a year, is that a success?
If the AI applies to 10 000 jobs and holds one of them for a year and gets paid that is fine. Humans do similar things. Sometimes things falls between the cracks, but that is pretty rare so I can live with that probability, if they made a bot that can apply to and get millions of jobs to get high probabilities of that happening then I'll say that it is intelligent as well, since that isn't trivial.
> Does it have to make more than its total operational expenses, or could I spend ten or hundreds as much as its salary, to afford the compute resources to implement it?
Yes, spend as much as you want on compute, the point is to show some general intelligence and not to make money. So even if this experiment succeeds it will be a ton of work left to do before the singularity, which is why I choose this kind of work as it is a nice middle ground.
> You also haven't indicated how many attempts I could make, per success. Could I, for instance, make tens of thousands of attempts, and if one holds down a job for a year, is that a success?
If the AI applies to 10 000 jobs and holds one of them for a year and gets paid that is fine. Humans do similar things. Sometimes things falls between the cracks, but that is pretty rare so I can live with that probability, if they made a bot that can apply to and get millions of jobs to get high probabilities of that happening then I'll say that it is intelligent as well, since that isn't trivial.