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Musk, Hawking, et al. are not talking about deep neural nets that do well on MNIST, but what will be possible 20-50 years down the road. There are very real con

Musk, Hawking, et al. are not talking about deep neural nets that do well on MNIST, but what will be possible 20-50 years down the road. There are very real concerns about AI and it's annoying to see them just dismissed by calling people "neo-luddites". >But instead on focusing on doing the actual work that would get us to these machine 'thugs' or at least promoting more research in that direction most prefer to sit in their armchair and argue to the death the hypothetical T-1000 There has been more investment in AI in the last 5 years than in the 50 years before it. Even Musk invested millions to AI research.

humanfromearth 12y ago
I retract my previous statement. Musk is not a luddite. He's a clever businessman.
mcguire 12y ago
Spending time and effort on AI "20-50 years down the road" is a waste because: (a) statistically based, but obviously not (or not obviously) intelligent systems are going to change the legal and practical landscape well before Ultron gets up and starts walking around, and (b) the kinds of things they're worried about are almost certainly going to appear silly when the real thing does roll around. The moral responsibility for a bot that orders drugs certainly belongs to the person who set up the bot to order from the "black market"; for a drone that kills the wrong people, it belongs primarily to the officer that ordered the mission knowing that the statistical software wasn't perfect. In my opinion. The supreme court may differ. Also in my opinion, the dangers of "singularity" AI are overblown due to a soft, fuzzy, but very real upper limit on "intelligence".