yeah, that's more consistent with what I've heard from Demis in the past...
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Calum Chace <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, Ben, it wasn't centuries for Hassabis. It was decades. Rather an > important difference! > > Last year, the American entrepreneur, Elon Musk, one of Deep Mind’s early > investors, described AI as humanity’s greatest existential threat. “Unless > you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast > [AI] is growing,” he said. “The risk of something seriously dangerous > happening is in the five year timeframe. Ten years at most.” > > However, the Google team played down the concerns. “We agree with him > there are risks that need to be borne in mind, but we’re decades away from > any sort of technology that we need to worry about,” Hassabis said. > > > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/25/google-develops-computer-program-capable-of-learning-tasks-independently > > Calum > > On 17 March 2015 at 01:20, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Did Demis really say AGI is hundreds of years away? That surprises >> me.... >> >> I think Ng actually believes AGI is far off, he's conservative but I >> believe he's a straight shooter. >> >> I don't know Yann and Christof F2F so I don't have a strong opinion on >> their attitudes... >> >> -- Ben >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Calum Chace <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, but Austin, of all places. >>> >>> Ben, why do you think Yann LeCun, Andrew Ng, Christof Koch and Demis >>> Hassabis have all been lining up to say that AGI is hundreds of years >>> away? Are they worried about this sort of reaction? >>> >>> On 17 March 2015 at 01:10, Ben Goertzel via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> And of course it has to be in Texas 8-D ... >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Piaget Modeler via AGI < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Straight out of Stephen Spielberg's film: A.I. >>>>> >>>>> ~PM >>>>> >>>>> > Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:59:25 -0700 >>>>> > Subject: Re: [agi] AI Protest in Texas >>>>> > From: [email protected] >>>>> > To: [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> > >>>>> > On 3/16/15, Aaron Hosford <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > > This sort of thing was predicted 50 years ago. >>>>> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad >>>>> > > >>>>> > > Nonetheless, yes, mind blowing. >>>>> > > >>>>> > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Mike Archbold via AGI < >>>>> [email protected]> >>>>> > > wrote: >>>>> > > >>>>> > >>>>> > Bultlerian, named after a guy from Stanwood, WA. I'm not far from >>>>> > there, actually, and there is a beautiful old Scandinavian farming >>>>> > community there, with falling down barns and images of tall blonde >>>>> > girls. >>>>> > >>>>> > A woman in the building I live in told me I have to find Jesus right >>>>> > away after she took a look at my book, presently at position about >>>>> > 5,000,000 on amazon. If I don't find Jesus right away it is all over. >>>>> > >>>>> > What a strange world. >>>>> > >>>>> > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> http://en.yibada.com/articles/19837/20150316/humans-hold-anti-ai-robot-protest-sxsw-texas.htm >>>>> > >> >>>>> > >> I find this kind of mind blowing. Down with robots? Down with AI? >>>>> > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> > >> ------------------------------------------- >>>>> > >> AGI >>>>> > >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >>>>> > >> RSS Feed: >>>>> > >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23050605-2da819ff >>>>> > >> 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/303/19999924-4a978ccc >>>>> > 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> >>>>> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | >>>>> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >>>>> <http://www.listbox.com> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ben Goertzel, PhD >>>> http://goertzel.org >>>> >>>> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one >>>> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. 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