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Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
- jqpabc123 4y agoUgh, how about teaching AI how to drive an automobile first? They're going to need some mobility in order to eliminate humanity.
- russellbeattie 4y ago> "...the most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys, they'll be machines - the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think and eventually they will completely out think their makers. Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the cro-magnon and neanderthal men and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things." -Arthur C. Clark https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?t=259 https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?t=259
- trasz 4y agoOne fundamentally wrong assumption here is the part about superseding Neanderthals. We didn’t supersede thousands of other species. There is no reason to believe humans would get superseded, we’re just too useful. It’s more likely we’ll be employed instead. Another questionable assumption is of course that future tense.
- russellbeattie 4y agoAt the time he spoke, that was the general assumption. In terms of Clarke's ability to predict the future? I think he proved his prescience enough to take his words seriously.
- trasz 4y agoAt the time Pascal’s Wager was the general assumption. Which doesn’t change the fact that it’s false - same as this one.
- trasz 4y agoLet me guess, another dude who conveniently conflates computing power with intelligence, and also welcomes investor money to save the world. EDIT: Yup, “Assumption 1.A sufficiently advanced agent will do at least human-level hypothesis generation”. This is literally fairy tales for financial people who think they are technical. Read Stanislaw Lem instead; he had better understanding of all this half a century ago.
- usednet 4y agoSounds good to me.