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Does Hawking have any AI-related credentials? I can't help but notice that the loudest Anti-AI-Campaigners are not AI people.
by CurryMath 9y ago
Does Hawking have any AI-related credentials?
I can't help but notice that the loudest Anti-AI-Campaigners are not AI people.
- splittingTimes 9y ago(1) If your job, carrer, funding or livelyhood depends on it, you might lack incentives to critize. (2) The way you phrase your questions it is easy to fall for either a "Genetic fallacy" [1] in case of Hawking or an "Appeal to authority" [2] from AI people. (Not saying that you do, but just raising awareness) === [1]https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic [2]https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
- asow92 9y agoEither way, this seems like an appeal to authority.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoYou mean like Stuart Russell, who literally wrote the book on AI? You mean like the Google Brain team and OpenAI, who are actively researching how to control superintelligence? I can't help but notice that the people who aren't alarmed by the consequences of superintelligence are people who haven't bothered to read the arguments.
- lin_lin 9y agoNo but his PR team have done wonders in making the average Joe think he's the smartest man in the world and therefore the papers will run with anything he comes out with,