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You don't need sentience to be a threat. Just intelligence. Imagine a super intelligent machine without sentience that just answers questions. It proposes expe
by ALittleLight 7y ago
You don't need sentience to be a threat. Just intelligence.
Imagine a super intelligent machine without sentience that just answers questions. It proposes experiments. Takes the results. Tells you things about the world. Gives you advanced technology, robots, fusion, nano tech, whatever.
Now imagine that the super intelligence was owned and operated by someone you don't like. Authoritarians in China, Silicon Valley oligarchs, whoever. The only sentience involved is human, no rebellion, no terminators, and still not a very good result.
- wolco 7y agoYou've described google or probably more askjeeves's eternal promise never realized.
- aeternum 7y agoNever realized? You very much underestimate the affect google has had on the world. Imagine how different the world would look if Google and other search engines required a 10k / month subscription to gain access.