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> These days the real wealth comes from brainpower, but you can't capture that wealth by pointing a gun at someone. At least not until we have general AI. If

• tomxor 7y ago
  > If machine brain power starts exceeding human brain power That is so ambiguous... ML abilities are far far from a one dimensional measure, in many ways it has already far exceeded mans mental abilities, and in many ways it has not and has little promise to do so in even the distant future. Machine learning is great at automating basic things e.g a subset of image recognition or extremely narrow and specific things e.g playing Go, because these problems are well defined and can be engineered at one level and emergent at another. It's not good at being conscious, because that is a chasm so deep and wide and non-specific in content that it is not a topology that can be so easily engineered with intent. When most people talk about conscious AI they mean AI that imitates human without realizing it - conscious AI is not some inevitable progression from our current toys, it's as if we are playing with the beginnings of chemistry and assume an entire highly sophisticated biological organism is going to be the next step.</rant>
  • visarga 7y ago
    I think we're just reinforcement learning agents. It's not such a chasm between current RL and human level. On the other hand we're also self replicators and have been shaped by evolution. Robots (physically embodied AI) are still far from that.
    • tomxor 7y ago
      > On the other hand we're also self replicators and have been shaped by evolution Yes which shaped our brain topology, ML is completely absent of that currently, we do it manually.