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It’s actually amazing how prescient folks like Kubrick (or maybe it was Minsky) and Turing were. Turing basically predicted that we would teach AIs rather than
by abrax3141 4y ago
It’s actually amazing how prescient folks like Kubrick (or maybe it was Minsky) and Turing were. Turing basically predicted that we would teach AIs rather than program them. (He likened it to teaching a child.) And Dave Bowman doesn’t just switch HAL off, in that incredible scene where he’s pulling HAL’s memory banks. Instead, we watch HAL gracefully degrading.
- abrax3141 4y agoOh, and of course Weizenbaum, who warned us of falling prey to trusting AIs that talk a good game. There's no better real-world example of this than The-Hack-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named.