Stephen Hawking says AI could be humanity's greatest disaster

Re:Stephen Hawking says AI could be humanity's greatest disa... by totalZero on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:01AM (#12750466)

Doesn't Stephen Hawking use word prediction technology from SwiftKey to adaptively finish his sentences for him?

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Re:Stephen Hawking says AI could be humanity's greatest disa... by IIAOPSW on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:59AM (#12750954)

In that case we should worry if Stephen suddenly changes his mind and starts advocating strongly for AI.

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Re:Stephen Hawking says AI could be humanity's greatest disa... by wwggggoi on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:44AM (#12750656)

counting simple statistics as intelligence is setting the bar very low

let's not forget that Hawking is one of the great intellects of our time

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Re:Stephen Hawking says AI could be humanity's greatest disa... by gnipgnip on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:17AM (#12751049)

Here's the thing. Even our most advanced ML models are quite simple mathematically.

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