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I found this article badly written. The author seems to confuse the two different types of AI that different people in his article are talking about. Stephen H
by SCHiM 12y ago
I found this article badly written. The author seems to confuse the two different types of AI that different people in his article are talking about.
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are talking about a hypothetical evil or amoral AI with super human intelligence when they label ai an existential threat to us.
The author is not talking about such a hypothetical ai and seems do dismiss the possibility of such an ai ever existing without so much as a second thought.
He seems to skirt around the problem in the first few paragraphs, and as I understand it his argument finally comes down to this:
"People should stop worrying about mythic or religious ai, because it's bad for the economy and the AI field itself.".
The author never questions the fact that it might be possible that super human AI can exist and that it's therefore very good to be afraid and/or cautions when researching AI, and that it might be very beneficial for humans to quit AI certain research altogether.
- sgt101 12y agoI think he argues that it's the actuators that we need to be concerned about, because there are plenty of intelligent entities around who will do bad things with actuators that allow that. One more entity intent on doing a bad thing does not make a great deal of difference. Neither humans or AI's should be given the tools to do great harm to other humans or AI's. He cites drones as an example, but of course nuclear weapons are the obvious gotchas for humanity. One trident sub is perfectly capable of killing a hundred million people, I doubt whether anyone so vaporized would give a toss whether these were launched by a googlebot or a mad captain.