Re:The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks
by proc0 on Sunday January 17, 2016 @03:16PM
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At least Elon Musk is not really implying what technology will get us there. He is assuming that once we do, it has serious implications. It's hard to disagree with that. We will be sharing the planet with another intelligent creature for the first time ever.
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Re:The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks
by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday January 17, 2016 @06:39PM
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We've been sharing the planet with intelligent creatures since before evolution made us human.
That's not the issue. The issue with AI is that we may be sharing the planet with an intelligence that's both nastier and more capable than we are.
I still tend to see this as projection. There's a huge gap between wiring together neural networks and developing something with self-awareness, strategic agency, and some potential to expand both at a rate we can't imagine.
Bostrom's paperclip monster is facile, and no worse than the kind of resource plunder we do already in the name of profit.
Whatever challenges AI brings are going to be quite a few levels beyond that.