The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the perils

Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by coldtea on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:17AM (#9505650)

>their intelligence is usually not the identifying characteristic

Intelligence in this context in the sense of a means to perpetuate their existance and get more power, not as some moral characteristic. Besides they can employ tons of Nobel prize winners (e.g. Feynman and co in the Manhatan project), and build crazily-smart stuff (for their purposes).

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:25AM (#9505726)

I didn't mean intelligence as moral characteristic - the observation is that many bureaucracies tend to do a lot of dumb, self-defeating things. As alien minds, they're not very smart - just smart enough to be dangerous.

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by coldtea on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:55AM (#9505953)

>the observation is that many bureaucracies tend to do a lot of dumb, self-defeating things

Isn't that true for people too, that can otherwise be extremely intelligent? From being terrible at social life, to sabotaging their careers and so on?

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 07, 2015 @12:00PM (#9506012)

Yeah, I suppose it is.

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