We have to have a real success to get people emotionally geared to AI threat
remediation. It's not SKYNET that threatens us, its ourselves. Plus, the ruling
elites, who's politics are now Progressive, are not motivated to deal such a
problem. We don't have international unrest protesting any technical issue.
Last month, as predicted, it was the israel-Gaza war, next month, (maybe) the
Ukraine war (no protests here!). To wit, rulers or ruled, we do not have a mind
set for problem resolution, worldwide. It was ever thus, but now it is hurting
our species, or starting to.
This is an inherent problem for many thinkers not to wish to involve politics
in technical discussions, which I sympathize with. However, because of human
nature, its difficult to separate the two. This is not Planet Vulcan and humans
are not always rational actors. Radar, the Jet engine, the rocket, satellites,
nuclear power, all came from war-a very emotional process indeed!
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From: Pierz <pier...@gmail.com>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 7:22 am
Subject: Re: AI Dooms Us
I have to say I find the whole thing amusing. Tegmark even suggested we should
be spending one percent of GDP trying to research this terrible threat to
humanity and wondered why we weren't doing it. Why not? Because, unlike global
warming and nuclear weapons, there is absolutely no sign of the threat
materializing. It's an absolutely theoretical risk based on a wild
extrapolation. To me the whole idea of researching defences against a future
robot attack is like building weapons to defend ourselves against aliens. So
far, the major threat from computers is their stupidity, not their
super-intelligence. It's the risk that they will blindly carry out some
mechanical instruction (think of semi-autonomous military drones) without any
human judgement. Some of you may know the story of the Russian commander who
prevented World War III by overriding protocol when his systems told him the
USSR was under missile attack. The computer systems f%^*ed up, he used his
judgement and saved the world. The risk of computers will always be their
mindless rigidity, not their turning into HAL 9000. Someone on the thread said
something about Google face recognition software exhibiting behaviour its
programmers didn't understand and they hadn't told it to do. Yeah. My programs
do that all the time. It's called a bug. When software reaches a certain level
of complexity, you simply lose track of what it's doing. Singularity,
shmigularity.
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:05:04 AM UTC+10, Brent wrote:
Bostrom says, "If humanity had been sane and had our act together
globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development
of superintelligence until we figured out how to do so safely. And then
maybe wait another generation or two just to make sure that we hadn't
overlooked some flaw in our reasoning. And then do it -- and reap immense
benefit. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to pause."
But maybe he's forgotten the Dark Ages. I think ISIS is working
hard to produce a pause. Repeating, the fault lies not in AI, but in ourselves,
Horatio.
Brent
On 8/25/2014 10:27 AM
Artificial Intelligence May Doom The Human Race Within A Century,
Oxford Professor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/artificial-intelligence-oxford_n_5689858.html?ir=Science
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