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Re:A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry [video] by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @05:53PM (#8889698)
No, they're warning us about an AI which could outsmart or outperform us, and lead to our demise as it pursues the goals we've encoded into it without realizing they lead to a result we don't want.
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Re:A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry [video] by pjc50 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:37PM (#8889933)
pursues the goals we've encoded into it without realizing they lead to a result we don't want.

Sounds like capitalism vs. the environment there.

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Re:A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry [video] by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @11:50PM (#8890936)
Why? It's not that our (humanity's) goals are bad (they're good pretty much by definition); it's that we totally suck at formalizing them.
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