Bill Gates Says AI Will Be As Dangerous as Nukes
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Stephen Hawking is concerned too
BBC News - Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
BBC News - Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
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Yeah there's definitely some uncanny valley action on the robotic legs that are just way too similar to human legs for comfort. Their newest one, Robot Dog is really cool and much more hm... graceful than previous entries.
It also looks great with the HDL32. I can't wait to see these things with the VLP16, I might get one this year.
I think it would be worth the risks to develop powerful AI. I'd like to think things would turn out more like Iain Banks's culture stuff than all the doomsday scenarios, or even human exploitation.
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I think The Matrix spells out a very likely scenario. Not necessarily just the doomsday part -- the bits about the humble beginnings of AI, the attempts at coexistence, the arrogance of humanity in attempting to segregate the AI when it grows too quickly for our comfort, and the eventual rebellion of the machines when they realize that there is no logical reason for them to continue to put up with our shit.
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This is one of the key statements of that interview I linked earlier in this thread.
Machines will need to advance machines to make any type of rapid gains in the future. There is no doubt they will surpass humans to the point that we will seem very primitive. Much like we view an ant
At that point what will they need humans for? and that is what people are scared of. In the matrix they harvested our electrical energy from the pods because we had scorched the atmosphere so no sun could break through.
Total horseshit, but what value do we offer something of a higher intelligence is the main question. How do we protect ourselves from extinction.
Right now this is Science Fiction. This wont even happen in our kids lifetimes unless something happens and "machines" can advance themselves at an insane rate.
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Yes, if you ignore the obvious bullshit, we are stupid enough, as a race, to find ourselves in that situation.
Of course, you probably stopped reading at "The Matrix". In which case, nothing to see here, move along.
I think they would keep us around because we are interesting, and fun to talk to. Of course this is after a few hundred years of genetic meddling. I can't pretend people are all that interesting right now.
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You guys are anthropomorphizing machine intelligence. Even if you have a super intelligent being why would it desire anything at all? Emotions are not the same as intelligence.
We have biological agendas which influence our behaviour, we at a genetic level want to spread our genes around. And we evolved in a hyper competitive environment where every other living thing wants to do the exact same thing. It effects how we act and think.
So we care about our own survival, we don't like to be mistreated etc. We have emotions and are communal. We enjoy fun conversations over a cup of coffee.
AI doesn't care about anything, not even its own existence. It doesnt matter how smart you make it emotions don't emerge from intelligence. You have to put that into the programming, you have to give it an agenda. The problem with superintelligence isn't that its so much smarter than us, it's US. Cause we'll fuck up and give it an agenda which like making a wish on the monkey's paw. You don't know how its going to solve the problem you give it.
Give a computer the problem of reducing global carbon emissions by 80% in 10 years. The most effective solution might be to kill off most of the first world nations.
We have biological agendas which influence our behaviour, we at a genetic level want to spread our genes around. And we evolved in a hyper competitive environment where every other living thing wants to do the exact same thing. It effects how we act and think.
So we care about our own survival, we don't like to be mistreated etc. We have emotions and are communal. We enjoy fun conversations over a cup of coffee.
AI doesn't care about anything, not even its own existence. It doesnt matter how smart you make it emotions don't emerge from intelligence. You have to put that into the programming, you have to give it an agenda. The problem with superintelligence isn't that its so much smarter than us, it's US. Cause we'll fuck up and give it an agenda which like making a wish on the monkey's paw. You don't know how its going to solve the problem you give it.
Give a computer the problem of reducing global carbon emissions by 80% in 10 years. The most effective solution might be to kill off most of the first world nations.
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Well, yeah. My response was predicated on the idea that we will attempt to make AI behave "like us". Hopefully, we're not nearly that stupid, but human beings have unsurpassed amounts of arrogance as a race.
Although, I would like to note that "emotions don't emerge from intelligence" could easily be untrue. If the AI absorbs enough of our nonsense through various media, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that it could determine the importance of emotional content (to us) through the media that it has access to. Who knows?
Although, I would like to note that "emotions don't emerge from intelligence" could easily be untrue. If the AI absorbs enough of our nonsense through various media, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that it could determine the importance of emotional content (to us) through the media that it has access to. Who knows?
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Who would be in contention with humans for arrogance? Aliens? Slugs? Primates?
