Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths about AI

Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by glitchc on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:24PM (#18123710)

I think that's what you need to realize. Technology is only one kind of tool in our toolbox for shaping humanity. Other tools include:

- Policy: With regards to technology, who's in charge, how we use it.

- Laws: How do we protect vulnerable (defenseless) people from the negative repercussions of technology.

- Philosophy: How we think about things, treat other humans, our environment.

And I'm saying all of this as a technophile. The same tool that got you into the hole is likely not the tool that will be useful for getting you out.

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Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:33PM (#18123804)

The tools you mention are also intertwined, with technology in particular being in the driver seat of changes in the other areas you mention. Therefore, it'll still be a necessary component of the solution, even if it won't be the only one.

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Re:Google DeepMind Founder Demis Hassabis: Three Truths abou... by glitchc on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:59PM (#18124066)

I firmly disagree. While technology is certainly an enabler, either to implement the solution or to enforce it of a particular solution, it is not the tool from which the solution must be derived. The intertwining that you envision emerges when decision-making bodies look at a particular technology and decide how it should influence humanity.

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