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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by mbrock on Monday September 19, 2016 @05:22PM (#12534852)
I never meant to imply "we know nothing, we had better give up."

What I meant was that the dystopian imaginations of AI (Terminator, paper clip maximizers, etc) involve the machines acquiring a strong moral certainty that doesn't ever pause for doubt.

If I've been reading too much of somebody it's probably Richard Rorty.

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Re:Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming, But Why Now? by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @11:49AM (#12540431)
>What I meant was that the dystopian imaginations of AI (Terminator, paper clip maximizers, etc) involve the machines acquiring a strong moral certainty that doesn't ever pause for doubt.

Ah. Well, considering that acquiring such a thing wouldn't really work out mathematically, fair enough.

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