Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

2023-07-14 Thread John Clark
Recently Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a TED talk and basically said the human race is doomed. You can see it on YouTube and I put the following in the comment section: -- I think Eliezer was right when he said nobody can predict what moves a chess program like Stockfish will make but you can predict

NYTimes.com: ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’

2023-07-14 Thread John Clark
Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’ Douglas Hofstadter is re-examining his stance on artificial intelligence.

Re: Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

2023-07-14 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
AI is not yet the existential threat that nuclear war is. Nor, is Climate Change.Nor, are Child Molestors (kids sucking their dicks) as a political plank.Dems. Nor, is sex changing. I would say that nothing yet has convinced me of the dreaded machine eliminating the species. In fact, I see an

Re: Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

2023-07-14 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 3:22 PM Terren Suydam wrote: *>It's hard to know how to think about this kind of risk. It's safe to say > EY has done more thinking on this issue than just about anyone, and he's > one of the smartest people on the planet, probably. I've been following him > for over a

Re: Will Superintelligent AI End the World? | Eliezer Yudkowsky | TED

2023-07-14 Thread Terren Suydam
It's hard to know how to think about this kind of risk. It's safe to say EY has done more thinking on this issue than just about anyone, and he's one of the smartest people on the planet, probably. I've been following him for over a decade, from even before his writings on lesswrong. However,