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Re:Hawking: AI could end human race by Tloewald on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:03AM (#8687087)
This isn't fear mongering, it's simply a question of due diligence. AI is a big unknown (unlike viruses, comets, nuclear weapons, incidentally, all of which we have at least some grasp of -- ever seen an AI?)
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Re:Hawking: AI could end human race by tomp on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:43AM (#8687291)
AI is also, at present (and in the foreseeable future) science fiction.
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Re:Hawking: AI could end human race by rbdn on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @10:11AM (#8687451)
It seems irrational to make such a prediction about systems which we don’t understand at all.

It’s not clear how sophisticated a neural network needs to be in order to yield AGI. It could be very simple (then you would be wrong with high probability), or it could extremely complex (then you would be right with high probability).

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