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"Since when does intelligence get you power?" You hit the nail on the head there. Its about I/O. (Just as its about I/O in the original article - garbage in, ga
by discreteevent 11y ago
"Since when does intelligence get you power?" You hit the nail on the head there. Its about I/O. (Just as its about I/O in the original article - garbage in, garbage out). Jaron Lanier makes this point in.
http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai
"This notion of attacking the problem on the level of some sort of autonomy algorithm, instead of on the actuator level is totally misdirected. This is where it becomes a policy issue. The sad fact is that, as a society, we have to do something to not have little killer drones proliferate. And maybe that problem will never take place anyway. What we don't have to worry about is the AI algorithm running them, because that's speculative. There isn't an AI algorithm that's good enough to do that for the time being. An equivalent problem can come about, whether or not the AI algorithm happens. In a sense, it's a massive misdirection."
- jameshart 11y agoAs I've said before, the singularity theorists seem to be somewhere between computer scientists, who think in terms of software, and philosophers, who think in terms of mindware, and they seem to have a tendency to completely forget about hardware. There seems to be this leap from 'superintelligent AI' to 'omnipotent omniscient deity' which is accepted as inevitable by (what for shorthand here is being called the 'lesswrong' worldview) which seems to ignore the fact that there are limited resources, limited amounts of energy, and limitations imposed by the laws of physics and information, that stand between a superintelligent AI and the ability to actuate changes in the world.