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As a systems programmer for 25+ years I find it impossible a computer will a threat _unless_ it's programmed to do such. I guess that makes me a doubter in gen
by DougN7 12y ago
As a systems programmer for 25+ years I find it impossible a computer will a threat _unless_ it's programmed to do such. I guess that makes me a doubter in general AI. We can do great neural nets, and fantastic task-specific solutions but until someone builds a system that decides to kill people for it's own benefit, I just don't see it happening on it's own.
- Houshalter 12y agoWe can't really control simple neural networks. You can reward it for things like getting a higher score in a video game. But it's very difficult to make it play the game the way you want it to. it just does whatever gets it the highest score. We can't use them to pilot self driving cars because we have no way of specifying the behavior we want. You can't let them get in all sorts of accidents and learn from it. You can't just have them predict what a human would do, because humans have slower reaction times and do make mistakes. But they are too stupid to be a real threat. But we are getting closer and closer to real AI every year. AI can do stuff today that no one predicted would be possible 10 years ago. This year it's expected to exceed humans at vision and Go.