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Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ by skybrian on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:36PM (#19587671)
I think a better analogy might be to computer security. Script kiddies exist. You don't necessarily need to do a lot of research if you can learn to use open source tools. It won't be state of the art, but that's not necessary to do damage.

These days there are a lot of high school kids messing around with machine learning. They might not have the theoretical understanding, but I don't think it will require a graduate degree to get there.

I'm not sure why there aren't more hacker tools that apply machine learning? Maybe we're not quite there yet.

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Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ by newen on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:59PM (#19588465)
Script kiddies do things that anyone doing research or work in computer security can do if they spend time on it. They are not doing new things. AGI is a completely different beast and has still not been achieved after research done by very smart and experienced people with millions of dollars in funding. It's almost ridiculous to compare these things.
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Re:Yoshua Bengio: ‘The dangers of abuse are real’ by MRD85 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:17AM (#19589541)
It's ridiculous to compare by today's standards but what about a script kiddie in the year 2100? 2200? If it is truly beyond a single individual then what about a small rogue nation like North Korea?
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