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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by schoen on Saturday April 01, 2017 @12:15AM (#14010380)
> You don't need to prove anything about an AGI system if you can prove things about its I/O capabilities.

But then you can't benefit from it, or you can only benefit from it except in narrowly predefined ways.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by joshuamorton on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:01AM (#14010526)
Perhaps, but if the alternative is either incredible fear of the technology, or the technology potentially killing humanity, then "making great strides in a select few fields" seems quite good.
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