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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by robotresearcher on Thursday May 07, 2015 @01:46PM (#9506885)
This thread is identical to its parody.

Speculation about the future is fun, but I think a lot of people would be disappointed to see what AI actually looks like right now.

The talk of runaway post-singularity AI is in the same class as imagining the future after cold fusion, warp drives, and ant-gravity.

edit: anti-gravity. Though ant-gravity sounds fun too.

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by xamdam on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:50PM (#9508213)
In the 1930s Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) repeatedly suggested, sometimes angrily, that the possibility of harnessing atomic energy was "moonshine".

The examples you mention are of things actually likely never achievable, while there is an existence proof of intelligent machines walking around everywhere.

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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by robotresearcher on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:00PM (#9508624)
Right! and I'm concerned about one or more of those meat machines going maniac and posing an existential threat to the rest of us. I'm much more worried about that than a descendent of Watson going all Ultron.

I'm far from a pessimist or Luddite. I'm optimistic that studying the smart meat machines can help us make better AIs.

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