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Re:Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent... by ALittleLight on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:54PM (#21199859)
You don't need sentience to be a threat. Just intelligence.

Imagine a super intelligent machine without sentience that just answers questions. It proposes experiments. Takes the results. Tells you things about the world. Gives you advanced technology, robots, fusion, nano tech, whatever.

Now imagine that the super intelligence was owned and operated by someone you don't like. Authoritarians in China, Silicon Valley oligarchs, whoever. The only sentience involved is human, no rebellion, no terminators, and still not a very good result.

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Re:Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent... by wolco on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:25AM (#21200288)
You've described google or probably more askjeeves's eternal promise never realized.
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Re:Experts who say we shouldn't worry about superintelligent... by aeternum on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:24PM (#21205460)
Never realized? You very much underestimate the affect google has had on the world. Imagine how different the world would look if Google and other search engines required a 10k / month subscription to gain access.
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