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What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer? Myself: What does 42 mean?
by Zenst 5y ago
What would be the first question you would ask an AI supercomputer?
Myself: What does 42 mean?
- _1100 5y agoAsimov wrote a short story[0] about this exact scenario! Many people at HN have probably read this already, but maybe some of them could be part of the lucky 10,000![1] [0] https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/the_last_question_-_issac_asimov.pdf https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/... [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- chrisseaton 5y agoI don't think that's the sort of question a supercomputer like this can answer. It has additional compute power - it doesn't have any breakthrough in the AI itself.
- Zenst 5y agoTrue, but then how we define what AI is does have many answers more than it did back in Asimov's days. For me the ability to ask a question that is not clear to some and for others will have literary humour (Douglas Adams reference) would be telling about the AI. Some humans would pick up on that reference and the humour, some would be flummoxed and it is for me how intelligence answers questions that it does not fully understand is, at least for me insightful into how intelligent they are.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> would be telling about the AI Right… but there’s no point wondering because the answer is it can’t answer things like that.
- xiii1408 5y agoDude it's just a bunch of GPUs with a fast network... Source: Berkeley PhD student in supercomputing, have access to Perlmutter.