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"Experts" are afraid of Artificial Intelligence


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2015 Jan 11, 4:28pm   4,683 views  7 comments

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http://www.cnet.com/news/artificial-intelligence-experts-sign-open-letter-to-protect-mankind-from-machines/

Then again, domain "experts" are rent-seekers who must protect their overpriced education and/or emotional investments.

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1   Peter P   2015 Jan 11, 4:30pm  

If people are so afraid of creating uncontrollable sentient beings they should always use condoms and/or stick with 69.

2   Tenpoundbass   2015 Jan 11, 4:52pm  

We can't even land a reusable launch craft on a 300 foot wide barge, with a big bright neon green "X" painted on it.

You want to strap weapons on that, and then automate the process?

3   Peter P   2015 Jan 11, 5:02pm  

The real danger of alarmism is the unnecessary regulations that follow. Innovations will be suffocated in the smog of excessive caution.

Those who think we can "safely" and "responsibly" advance the art are idiots. How can emergence in a non-linear system be planned or controlled? Such arrogance is breathtaking.

4   Tenpoundbass   2015 Jan 11, 5:08pm  

Such is the paradox of THIS Ameirca.

We used to do Common Sense great in this country.

Now people come up half assed half baked ideas, and in lieu of any meaningful research and development, we have a 1,000 people applying mediocre contributions to a very basic open source. By time any real advances are made, it's a cluster fuck of maybes, half truths, and just might work.

Then all it takes is one redaction as the original contribution was either a plagiarism or nobody never bothered to try to duplicate the original results early on.
It's not until everyone else playing monkey see monkey do and billions have been squandered, that the truth comes out. We're back on first base, and our best technology is still an iPod app.

5   Peter P   2015 Jan 12, 8:32am  

CaptainShuddup says

Now people come up half assed half baked ideas, and in lieu of any meaningful research and development, we have a 1,000 people applying mediocre contributions to a very basic open source.

Very few open source projects are even good enough to be useful. Most are buggy and poorly designed.

I find those company-sponsored ones tend to be pretty good. AngularJS is an example.

6   John Bailo   2015 Jan 12, 9:19am  

People are afraid of robots, but in some sense the race was lost in the 20th century. I speak of people vs. cars.

Cars are robots, albeit, manually driven ones (but which will soon be automated).

In most sci-fy of course, we're worried about Androids -- human shaped robots, taking over ( like in the movie, Automata, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHg8lKk3vJo ).

However, if you were to look at our world from a few miles up, you would think that the dominant species was a 4 wheeled, creature with a metallic carapace. There would be a squishy "parasite" that enters its inside and makes it do things like turn corners, sure, but at the same time, the Car makes these parasites build it food centers for fuel, and reproduction at giant "breeding centers" in the South, Detroit, and Korea.

Since Cars create flat surfaces for moving about the world, they never needed to evolve legs..those fragile, spindlely things that break easily and put the center of gravity way up high. Why in the world would you want legs when wheels are so much more efficient!

And why would you want to have complex foods for energy when you could sup from stuff that comes up from the ground, or direct from the sun, especially when you could get the squishy parasite to refine those for you? (And really, at some point all you need are mechanical versions of their arm and hand and you'd be done with the parasite).

Clearly the cars won and are merely keeping us around until we naturally retire, thus avoiding lawsuits.

7   Peter P   2015 Jan 12, 9:20am  

John Bailo says

Cars are robots, albeit, manually driven ones (but which will soon be automated).

Then they are cyborgs at best. :-)

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