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Good point. Another noted expert in "AI" is Andrew Ng (formerly Google and Baidu) who stated that, "Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overp
by arcanus 9y ago
Good point. Another noted expert in "AI" is Andrew Ng (formerly Google and Baidu) who stated that, "Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."
...For some reason Elon is really hung up on gradient-based descent methods terminating all of humanity. We just aren't close to that possibility yet. It is not even in sight.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoThe problem is that both are potentially right. The majority of the ML field still ignores entirely the AGI discipline - and in general rightly so as there are enough narrow problems to solve to fill a lifetime. That's the perspective of Lecun/Ng etc... because they are scientists. The others Bostrom et al. are philosophers, so they approach it from a different perspective. There are valuable reasons to think about it at both levels.
- hndamien 9y agoCorrect. There were plenty of economists that said Bitcoin would fail, and philosophers that thought otherwise. The jury is still out, but I know who is winning. https://twitter.com/damiendonnelly/status/91766074021904386 https://twitter.com/damiendonnelly/status/91766074021904386