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Re:Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI? by aktungmak on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:23PM (#24262949)
> AGI could be the ultimate tool to free every human being from toil. It could also be the starting point of a large number of evil genie scenarios where we get what we asked for, in the form we least want it.

It seems that the second possibility is much more likely, and freeing humans from toil could be achieved without needing to enslave another intelligence to handle the foil on our behalf.

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Re:Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI? by rbanffy on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:32PM (#24263058)
Unless you have AGI, there will always be some human that needs someone to do something in order to make society work.
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Re:Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI? by aktungmak on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:26AM (#24268604)
What I meant was, we can automate tasks to save a human from doing it with simpler solutions that an AGI.
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Re:Ask HN: Does Anyone Want AGI? by rbanffy on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:50AM (#24270390)
We can, but someone will still have to build the less smart AIs
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