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About Minsky being too optimistic: "I would tell Marvin this whole AI thing is just horrible. Why are we doing it? And he would say it will be effective for ge
by zone411 3y ago
About Minsky being too optimistic:
"I would tell Marvin this whole AI thing is just horrible. Why are we doing it?
And he would say it will be effective for getting our grants, so shut up and just play along
and in fact, it was true. It was very good for getting grants back in the early days,
in the 70's was when I started at this, you would go to a grant making organization such as the Defense Department,
you'd say we're going to build this super smart thing and if we don't do it, our enemies might and it'll get smarter than people and it was Okay, here's your money,
here's your money, oh my God, you better... and so it was very effective. And actually, the whole thing started off as storytelling to get grants"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqiswuJuQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqiswuJuQI
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoThis is probably still true. Currently this doesn't get as much media hype for some reason. But definitely the military is all in on the current hype-wave. Because is it really 'hype' if an AI fighter pilot can beat human F-16 fighter pilots? This has already been done and old news. Games, poker, go, StarCraft, -- all have 'game' logic that can also be used on battlefields. Robots, logistics, fighter plane drones, battlefield 'perceptual' analysis, etc... There are companies building these things now, they aren't hype. Just like Darpa Funded the internet, in the future when the military has huge AI components, we'll be looking back on today fondly like the good old days before there were thousands of autonomous drones tracking us all the time..