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I guess I can sigh in relief, the Superhuman AI that Joshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton are warning us might drive humanity towards extinction the way we did to
by SonOfLilit 2y ago
I guess I can sigh in relief, the Superhuman AI that Joshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton are warning us might drive humanity towards extinction the way we did to most apes and many tribal civilizations is no danger after all, because you see, to be Human is not about winning at war or economy, not about being good at solving a vast array of tasks, it's about playing with your kids.
So the better-at-problemsolving machines aren't coming to destroy everything that is dear to me because I... used the wrong word to refer to them?
I mean, sure, there are arguments to make against Bengio and Hinton, definitely against Yudkowsky, I myself only give less than 50% that they are right and doom is imminent (which is of course enough risk to warrant taking action to prevent it, even the kind of "crazy" action Yudkowsky advocates for), but this "argument"... what the heck did I just read.
- stonogo 2y agoWorse, the author completely gets the fundamental precept wrong by claiming "superhuman means human, but more so" when in fact it means "above human." So the whole article is just barking up the wrong tree. The real reason the better-at-problemsolving machines aren't coming to destroy everything that is dear to you is because they don't exist and we're not close to making them, but this article misses that basic truth in the pursuit of a misunderstanding of the prefix "super".