Are we in an AI Overhang?

Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by exolymph on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:41PM (#23967446)

Yudkowsky's outfit is the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, not the Singularity Institute. The latter might be Bostrom? Can't recall.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by pjscott on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:54PM (#23967615)

MIRI was, until 2013, called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Apparently the name change was part of a deal with Singularity University to avoid brand confusion. Announcement here:

https://intelligence.org/2013/01/30/we-are-now-the-machine-i...

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by notadonut on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:05PM (#23968295)

Thank you.

Thiel was an early backer of SI and attendee of the Singularity Summits that ran from 2006-2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Summit

Soon after that, awareness of AI and superintelligence went mainstream, and we got FHI, FLI, etc.

I don't know if Thiel backs MIRI as he did SI. Arguably, he doesn't need to. He made his money on DeepMind and helped trigger a larger movement, and other institutions with a lot more resources, like Alphabet and MSFT, carry forward the torch.

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by Nuzzerino on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:39PM (#23969163)

Thiel wasn't an attendee, he was one of the people running the conference

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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by notadonut on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:08PM (#23969405)

He was attendee and sponsor and running the conference.

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