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Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by personlurking on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:03AM (#11836024)
Right, but what I wonder is why we would need something that already does what we want without intervention to become even smarter (leading to it possibly becoming all-powerful)? What are the real-world advantages of making it self-aware?
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Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:22AM (#11836074)
Unassisted learning will unleash great advances in computing. Imagine not having to write a program to accomplish some task, but rather just putting some ai in an environment with some obstacle and letting it figure out how to teach itself to overcome it. Advantage: no more need for humans to have to program. Disadvantage: self-aware, all-powerful AI.
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Re:Google is working on a kill switch to prevent an AI uprising by coldtea on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:20AM (#11841083)
>Unassisted learning will unleash great advances in computing. (...) Advantage: no more need for humans to have to program. Disadvantage: self-aware, all-powerful AI.

So it's like "nuclear bombs will kill all pesky mosquitos. Disadvantage: humanity wiped out too".

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