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I can't think of another field of research that's simultaneously brought the potential to solve all the world's problems and the potential to end life as we kno
by sethbannon 11y ago
I can't think of another field of research that's simultaneously brought the potential to solve all the world's problems and the potential to end life as we know it. Very appreciative to see so many great minds working on ensuring AI heralds in more of the former, and none of the latter.
- rfrank 11y agonuclear research.
- samstave 11y agoYou might like this: https://np.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3v7zhv/why_are_nuclear_reactors_never_built_in_water_or/cxlf2j9?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3v7zhv/why_are_n...
- sethbannon 11y agoHow does nuclear research have the capability of solving all the world's problems?
- rfrank 11y agoIt doesn't, just like AI doesn't.
- peter303 11y agoThey said this 60 years when AI began.
- murbard2 11y agoMolecular nanotechnology
- kumarski 11y agoNitrogen research. Haber Bosch is a primary example. Nitrogen both creates and destroys. Look harder. ;)
- sethbannon 11y agoHow does nitrogen research have the capability of solving all the world's problems?
- scott_karana 11y agoHow does AI solve all problems, either? I can think of plenty of problems with our bodies that AI might never fix. Cost-benefit and all.
- cobaltblue 11y agoIntelligence has solved all of our solved problem thus far, it's reasonable to assume that if a problem can be solved with intelligence, maybe it's a matter of doing the intellectual work to understand existence better or engineer something or in your case making efforts into making the cost-benefit tradeoff acceptable, then AI can solve all those problems. Since one of those problems is making smarter than human AI, AI can solve that one too, and thus be even better equipped to solve the others. The problem of entropy is one I think AI might not be able to solve, but that's only using my laymen knowledge of human understandings of the universe.
- kumarski 11y agoAt one time, all of world's problems summed up to food availability. Our existence is Haber Bosch's hack.
- T-A 11y agoSynthetic biology?
- magpi3 11y agoNanotechnology