Speaking of AI applications, I'm curious what people think of recent directions in NLP and QA systems being explored? Say IBM Watson vs Google? Which do people think has the better potential to expand and is the right direction to go in comercializing AI systems? When I say expand, I mean the potential for creating more generality in current AI systems (with the understanding that it's not true AGI work).
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:15 PM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: It could move in and take over our functions, our jobs, and perform them with such drastically less resource consumption and see us as beings that have competed with almost every other species and destroyed the very nature of this planet. AGI could compete with us as an invasive species would but in a way to make the planet restore to its previous health before humans were here. I don't see it totally happening that way. I see it more as AGI embeds itself into our systems of civilization, our governments, corporations, and slowly renders us over time as being not that important entities, less and less as spiritual beings, more and more as lower level animals with less rights, sort of like p-zombies, the individual having diminished importance, we become herded as sheeple. Kind of like what is happening now as we acquiesce. I don't say it will or has to go that way. The future isn't predetermined. In fact, AGI has the capability to liberate the individual. There are real things to fear though. It's been relatively calm the past few decades but at any moment you could have some new disease break out, an extreme natural disaster, a global famine, an ice age, fear is good. John -----Original Message----- From: just camel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:21 AM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Practical Applications for AGI Why would it be competitive? There just is no reason. It's a highly anthropomorphic and contemporary notion of us. Just because we think that a competitive culture is a fruitful thing to have does not make competition universal. In fact there have been civilizations that existed (despite having much less of an abundance) without competition for much longer than us and way more sustainable. The problem is that people like Yudkowsky and Bostrom might have an IQ of over 9000 but they are also spiritually trapped in this belief system of fear and scarcity and thus will come up with 1000 biased and illogical scenarios in which AGI will terminate humanity (instead of pointing out that the by far biggest existential risk for humanity stems from our monetary system and neoliberal capitalism). Yet there are thousands of people with a superior consciousness (less inherent entropy) who are not as indoctrinated by our culture and it makes no sense to believe that any superintelligent agent would adopt the irrational, fearful, destructive, de-evolutionary and unsustainable polluted mindset of the average westener? On 03/19/2014 01:22 PM, John Rose wrote: > Only prob it might relegate us as biological waste byproducts > unnecessary for its competitive survival. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029-3b178a58 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/20347893-f72b365c Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
