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Well it is incredibly dangerous, but if we did make safe, super intelligent AI, it would definitely be a much greater investment than directly working on those

Well it is incredibly dangerous, but if we did make safe, super intelligent AI, it would definitely be a much greater investment than directly working on those problems. To put it lightly, it would automate and massively bring down the cost/increase the speed of research and engineering. Sure enough money, spent on enough humans, given enough time, could eventually find a cure for any disease. But why do that when you can just ask the AI and have a cure overnight? Of course it's not clear how safe such an AI would be (such a being could easily outsmart us and get what it wants, whatever that even is), nor how difficult it will be to create one.

throwaway7808 13y ago
Well, let's hope they will go broke wasting money into the AI research black hole before being able to actually build one :) Otherwise, you are correct. A successful built of super intelligent AI is probably an extinction event for the humans.
- ra88it 13y ago
  After super intelligent AI, what's special about humans?
  - Houshalter 13y ago
    Define "special". I don't want to be killed to make way for more paperclips.
  - JabavuAdams 13y ago
    We still have pets, and they're rather well taken care of.
    - Houshalter 13y ago
      That's just another human weakness - we anthropomorphize lesser creatures. And even with that, we still don't look before stepping on ants.
enupten 13y ago
Realistically though, a super intelligent AI, would require far more fundamental breakthroughs. People who say otherwise, should take a look at problems in Control theory. The effect of scaling things up should be interesting though. Perhaps there is a "Phase transition" like thing, where suddenly something awesome happens. This also means that, sadly, Universities would no longer be able to provide adequate resources for research.
- Houshalter 13y ago
  What makes you say that? It may seem that it would take a lot of work, but really, how can we know? Often times difficult problems seem obvious in retrospect.

throwaway7808 13y ago

Well, let's hope they will go broke wasting money into the AI research black hole before being able to actually build one :) Otherwise, you are correct. A successful built of super intelligent AI is probably an extinction event for the humans.

ra88it 13y ago
After super intelligent AI, what's special about humans?
- Houshalter 13y ago
  Define "special". I don't want to be killed to make way for more paperclips.
- JabavuAdams 13y ago
  We still have pets, and they're rather well taken care of.
  - Houshalter 13y ago
    That's just another human weakness - we anthropomorphize lesser creatures. And even with that, we still don't look before stepping on ants.

enupten 13y ago

Realistically though, a super intelligent AI, would require far more fundamental breakthroughs. People who say otherwise, should take a look at problems in Control theory. The effect of scaling things up should be interesting though. Perhaps there is a "Phase transition" like thing, where suddenly something awesome happens. This also means that, sadly, Universities would no longer be able to provide adequate resources for research.

Houshalter 13y ago
What makes you say that? It may seem that it would take a lot of work, but really, how can we know? Often times difficult problems seem obvious in retrospect.