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You talk as if AI is something a person can "make" in their garage. I don't buy this for a minute. You can argue the exact same thing about, say, nuclear weapon
by gnulinux 8y ago
You talk as if AI is something a person can "make" in their garage. I don't buy this for a minute. You can argue the exact same thing about, say, nuclear weapons. But people making nukes in their garage is not a real problem because such a complex project with a lot of niche resources is not attainable in a garage. Curiosity doesn't mean anything if you need decades of mathematics, CS, statistics and neuroscience research as well as thousands of human hours of programming to achieve something.
- skybrian 8y agoI think a better analogy might be to computer security. Script kiddies exist. You don't necessarily need to do a lot of research if you can learn to use open source tools. It won't be state of the art, but that's not necessary to do damage. These days there are a lot of high school kids messing around with machine learning. They might not have the theoretical understanding, but I don't think it will require a graduate degree to get there. I'm not sure why there aren't more hacker tools that apply machine learning? Maybe we're not quite there yet.
- newen 8y agoScript kiddies do things that anyone doing research or work in computer security can do if they spend time on it. They are not doing new things. AGI is a completely different beast and has still not been achieved after research done by very smart and experienced people with millions of dollars in funding. It's almost ridiculous to compare these things.
- MRD85 8y agoIt's ridiculous to compare by today's standards but what about a script kiddie in the year 2100? 2200? If it is truly beyond a single individual then what about a small rogue nation like North Korea?