Don Detrich writes:
AGI Will Be The Most Powerful Technology In Human History – In Fact, So Powerful that it Threatens Us << Admittedly there are many possible dangers with future AGI technology. We can think of a million horror stories and in all probability some of the problems that will crop up are things we didn’t anticipate. At this point it is pure conjecture. All new technologies have dangers, just like life in general. It'll be interesting to see if the "horror stories" about AGI follow the same pattern as they did for Nanotechnology... After many years and dollars of real nanotechnology research, the simplistic vision of the lone wolf researcher stumbling on a runaway self-replicator that turns the planet into gray goo became much more complicated and unlikely. Plus you can only write about gray goo for so long before it gets boring. Not to say that AGI is necessarily the same as Nanotechnology in its actual risks, or even that gray goo is less of an actual risk than writers speculated about, but it will be interesting to see if the scenario of a runaway self-reprogramming AI becomes similarly passe. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=47965814-e6c819
