Re:There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
by sullyj3 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:41AM
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Yes, an AI will do exactly what we tell it to do. The the incredible difficulty programmers have with writing bug-free code demonstrates that doing exactly what it's told isn't sufficient to guarantee it'll do what we want.
Classical and operant conditioning are psychological concepts that aren't applicable to non-humans.
Those who are running around screaming about the danger of AGI and why it should be regulated by the government before it is even here, are just scared that someone else may gain control of it before they do. This is too bad because anybody who is smart enough to figure out AGI is much smarter than they are.