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Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity

by _aleph2c_ on 9/15/22, 5:35 PM with 9 comments

• by trasz on 9/15/22, 6:25 PM

  Let me guess, another dude who conveniently conflates computing power with intelligence, and also welcomes investor money to save the world.

  EDIT: Yup, “Assumption 1.A sufficiently advanced agent will do at least human-level hypothesis generation”.

  This is literally fairy tales for financial people who think they are technical. Read Stanislaw Lem instead; he had better understanding of all this half a century ago.

• by jqpabc123 on 9/15/22, 5:39 PM

  Ugh, how about teaching AI how to drive an automobile first?

  They're going to need some mobility in order to eliminate humanity.

• by russellbeattie on 9/15/22, 6:15 PM

  > "...the most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys, they'll be machines - the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think and eventually they will completely out think their makers. Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the cro-magnon and neanderthal men and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things." -Arthur C. Clark

  https://youtu.be/YwELr8ir9qM?t=259

• by usednet on 9/15/22, 6:24 PM

  Sounds good to me.