>Statistical optimization and sentience are parallel lines. No matter how far you travel down one, you don't get any closer to the other. Source? How can you p

>Statistical optimization and sentience are parallel lines. No matter how far you travel down one, you don't get any closer to the other. Source? How can you possibly know how AI will be developed? Machine learning is likely to be a huge component in any AI. Deep learning has been shown to beat all sorts of tasks thought to require strong AI. it can learn complicated patterns and heuristics from raw data, which is the hardest part of AI. It's quite possible we are 99% of the way there, and we just need someone to figure out how to use it for general intelligence. Regardless, this is all irrelevant. The people concerned about AI are mostly worried for the long term. No one is claiming we will have AI in ten years for certain. I'm not sure why people keep equating these two totally different predictions. That's why ML researchers saying the stuff they work on isn't dangerous, isn't very reassuring. No one is claiming that it is.