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I wonder: Why should we care about what Musk and Hawking mean about AI? This article doesn't mention too much bad stuff, but earlier they have said that we shou
by maaaats 12y ago
I wonder: Why should we care about what Musk and Hawking mean about AI? This article doesn't mention too much bad stuff, but earlier they have said that we should be afraid of AI/singularity.
With my thesis now in AI, I probably know far more than those two about this. And we're sooo far away from AI being a superforce destroying mankind.
- rndn 12y agoYou can probably assume they are in contact with the leading experts in the field. From the letter: The initial version of this document was drafted by Stuart Russell, Daniel Dewey & Max Tegmark, with major input from Janos Kramar & Richard Mallah, and reflects valuable feedback from Anthony Aguirre, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Tom Dietterich, Dileep George, Bill Hibbard, Demis Hassabis, Eric Horvitz, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, James Manyika, Luke Muehlhauser, Michael Osborne, David Parkes, Heather Roff Perkins, Francesca Rossi, Bart Selman, Murray Shanahan, and many others.
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- herewego 12y ago>> And we're sooo far away from this being a problem. If we're far away from this being a problem, we may be far away from understanding how to solve it. We certainly wouldn't want the former to outpace the later, given what is at stake.
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- DennisP 12y agoThey aren't the only ones who signed it, they just get top media billing because they always do. Other people who signed include AI researchers. Peter Norvig, for one.
- ThomPete 12y agoI haven't read your thesis but does it take things like exponential progress, deep learning and higher and higher privileges and control over infrastructure into account? It doesn't have to be conscious to be dangerous.