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FWIW, it's meant for people not necessarily in the AI field, but here's a general post on it[1]. (disclaimer I'm the author). A lot of people have strong feeli

FWIW, it's meant for people not necessarily in the AI field, but here's a general post on it[1]. (disclaimer I'm the author). A lot of people have strong feelings about where cognizant AI could be, I don't think fearmongering is the problem we should be focusing on. I think it should be more focused on the problem solving potential of these systems and how they will become more relevant as computers get better. [1]: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140506213247-158494375-response-to-hawking-ai-helps-us-understand-a-world-we-endangered?published=t https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140506213247-1...

com2kid 12y ago
> Caught between atheism and a crippling fear of death So is that line really necessary? It seems to do not but make assertions about the motives and beliefs of others, and to do such in a negative light. It adds no value to the article, but creates a negative impression in the reader's mind without giving any evidence as backing.
- bostonpete 12y ago
  > So is that line really necessary? He's not the author of the original post -- he's the author of the linkedin post he linked to.
  - com2kid 12y ago
    Ah, confusion. Thank you for the correction.
- agibsonccc 12y ago
  To reply anyways to contribute to the discussion, there is a lot of fear mongering about cognizant AI from people who don't create these systems themselves. With all of the marketing around things like big data, deep learning and other topics, it makes it seem like we're closer to cognizant AI than we really are. At the heart of all this is still statistics and machine learning which in and of itself is just statistics with a lot more data used to achieve a set of tasks such as predicting a future value or labeling some thing (such as a fraudulent event) Edit: I'd love to see some discussion on what people think we are close to. We have to ask ourselves, what is AI and what is considered intelligent? Is it mimicking the human brain as closely as possible (with all the flaws that come to mind such as bias) or is it making the heuristically best decision given a set of circumstances (game playing AI, maximum likelihood learning). Both of these mindsets can be beneficial. Let's just make sure we treat it for what it is: math and binary information.
  - aidenn0 12y ago
    A non cognizent AI that is capable of generating an similar AI better at generating AIs than itself is would run into the issue, regardless of whether it is cognizant.

com2kid 12y ago

> Caught between atheism and a crippling fear of death So is that line really necessary? It seems to do not but make assertions about the motives and beliefs of others, and to do such in a negative light. It adds no value to the article, but creates a negative impression in the reader's mind without giving any evidence as backing.

bostonpete 12y ago
> So is that line really necessary? He's not the author of the original post -- he's the author of the linkedin post he linked to.
- com2kid 12y ago
  Ah, confusion. Thank you for the correction.
agibsonccc 12y ago
To reply anyways to contribute to the discussion, there is a lot of fear mongering about cognizant AI from people who don't create these systems themselves. With all of the marketing around things like big data, deep learning and other topics, it makes it seem like we're closer to cognizant AI than we really are. At the heart of all this is still statistics and machine learning which in and of itself is just statistics with a lot more data used to achieve a set of tasks such as predicting a future value or labeling some thing (such as a fraudulent event) Edit: I'd love to see some discussion on what people think we are close to. We have to ask ourselves, what is AI and what is considered intelligent? Is it mimicking the human brain as closely as possible (with all the flaws that come to mind such as bias) or is it making the heuristically best decision given a set of circumstances (game playing AI, maximum likelihood learning). Both of these mindsets can be beneficial. Let's just make sure we treat it for what it is: math and binary information.
- aidenn0 12y ago
  A non cognizent AI that is capable of generating an similar AI better at generating AIs than itself is would run into the issue, regardless of whether it is cognizant.