Re:MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors
by JoshTriplett on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:34PM
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> Is the fear I feel that irrational, founded only on Hollywood movies in which mankind always ends up fighting the rise of AI?
Almost certainly, yes. AI has its dangers, but it's also potentially the source of a huge amount of innovation and the solution to a broad class of problems.
> I don't think the capitalistic structure + unbridled automation is a stable combination.
There are other structures that could potentially work in a post-scarcity world, but let's create a post-scarcity world first, and file the rest under "problems we'd love to have".
Almost certainly, yes. AI has its dangers, but it's also potentially the source of a huge amount of innovation and the solution to a broad class of problems.
> I don't think the capitalistic structure + unbridled automation is a stable combination.
There are other structures that could potentially work in a post-scarcity world, but let's create a post-scarcity world first, and file the rest under "problems we'd love to have".