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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by nv-vn on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:02AM (#18804857)
This is what we get for all the stupid fear-mongering done by people with no understanding of "AI". Pop scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk weighing in on a field with 0 overlap with their expertise is treated by the media as some kind of prophecy sent from the heavens. Don't get me wrong, there's scary shit happening with AI that we can legitimately talk about, but we are so far from a world with sentient computers that the problem being posed by media figures is no more appropriate to discuss today than it was with the advent of neural networks.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by timonovici on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:54AM (#18805634)
https://youtu.be/GAXLHM-1Psk?t=945 - I think this commentary by Maciej Ceglowski rings true here.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by timonovici on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:58AM (#18805648)
Ah, it comes a bit later, at 19:00 -

"At that point people who are angry, mistrustful, and may not understand a thing about computers will regulate your industry into the ground. You'll be left like those poor saps who work in the nuclear plants, who have to fill out a form in triplicate anytime they want to sharpen a pencil."

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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by nv-vn on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:00PM (#18809581)
Great vid! Thanks for sharing
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by tim333 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @04:39PM (#18810501)
Shane Legg "a machine learning researcher and cofounder of DeepMind Technologies" for example seems to think it's something to worry about. I don't think you can all the dismiss all the worrying as people with no expertise. Slightly out of date interview here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/No5JpRCHzBrWA4jmS/q-and-a-wi...
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by bodi on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @04:10AM (#18805065)
What's even scarier is the blind self appointed belief that one may own the thought and conversation of a topic as impactful yet graspable as AI.
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Re:The Commerce Department is considering national security ... by nv-vn on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @02:56PM (#18809538)
I don't believe that, if that's what you're implying. I think the people who should "own" the conversation so-to-speak are people who have spent the most time doing AI research. A lot of the cultural understanding of what AI is reflects the type of sci-fi hacking that's depicted on TV.
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