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Wow! When you read these things, and combine that with the advances in AI, it really seems that understanding what happens in the brain is within reach.
by d--b 5y ago
Wow! When you read these things, and combine that with the advances in AI, it really seems that understanding what happens in the brain is within reach.
- stupendousyappi 5y agoIMO, if that's true, it's horrifying. I think there's a great risk that AGI will lead to the extinction or near extinction of the human race.
- cosmojg 5y agoC'est la vie.
- felipemnoa 5y agoNot sure why you are getting downvoted. I would say that AGI is even more dangerous than the Atom bomb. It will still get invented though, we just cannot help ourselves. And to be honest, I would be first in line to invent the thing if I could.
- PhantomGremlin 5y agoHmmm. Maybe that's why we haven't detected any signs of an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe. Steps: 1) quantum mechanics 2) semiconductors 3) AGI 4) the machines take over We're about 100 years into that progression, and we're well into step 2. How many years do we have left? Another 100? The machines are probably not "foolish" enough to announce themselves to the rest of the universe.
- 0ldskool 5y agothen wouldn't we find an advanced machine civilization???
- tetraca 5y agoDo you fear that one day your child might be something greater than you yourself ever could be? No. There is no greater accomplishment humanity could achieve than to make itself obsolete.
- leobg 5y agoThat was quite Nietzschean! What are ye but a bridge into the future.
- captaincaveman 5y agoLess worried about AGI and all that, more worried that taking away all the 'magic' of how minds work does it take away some of the magic of how the minds work, i.e. it could be quite depressing for many to think of ourselves as 'mechanistic' automatons. Yes that has been discussed for years, but as that becomes fact and with blueprints ... I dunno, I think I quite liked the world how it was before that! Also the more we can model the minds workings, the more some sod is going to exploit that for commercial benefits i.e. advertising, propaganda etc.
- leobg 5y agoNot just for years. For centuries now. Wasn’t that people’s main concern about Darwin, after all? “Once it is proven that we have descended from apes, where does that leave us?“
- Xplune13 5y ago> I dunno, I think I quite liked the world how it was before that! I agree. I don't know why but when I read this article and the responses here stating how things can be related and can be measured, I suddenly felt this sigh? disappointment? for 'demystifying the mind'.
- salawat 5y agoYou just know some arsehole is going to make a read interface, then that'll get used for measuring, then people will optimize processes around it. Nightmare fuel.
- Xplune13 5y agoYes exactly. It won't take long till someone exploits it which would be more robust than the prediction models we have right now and that's what I don't want a single dime of. I know we're not there yet, and perhaps we won't ever be, or we'll be there in 10 years, but we don't have to map every single thing in the brain in order to exploit the foundational behavior.