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dragonsmoked rated 13 months ago
This is greatest article on the entire internet. Read everything by Eliezer Yudkowsky if you have any remote bit of common sense.

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chad1000 rated 5 months ago
What a terrific read. Makes you think about about our place in the universe. Forget for the second AI and think about whats being said here. Somehow, despite not having claws, a shell or poison, we've made it long enough to build bombs to kill others who don't "think" like we do. I'm not a bible thumper, but it makes me wonder if there is a divine keeper in the sky somewhere guiding our progress.
Toast-recon rated 12 months ago
soren, an IQ of 80 would be lucky, but no. Currently computers are of unmeasurable intelligence. Not to say that means they are immeasurably smart, just that we can not know how smart they are. They have computational power enough to find pi to billions of decimals, yet need specific training to know that cars move forward and back, yet can't move straight left to right. Even after that programming, they will not truly KNOW, just act almost as if they do. While we are working on AI, we will not be building the power of computers, just the ability to learn on their own, a feat that separates man from machine. After that, I am afraid, they will most likely pass us very quickly in intelligence. As soon as we make a program that is of measurable intelligence, I think it will be a genius.
dragonsmoked rated 13 months ago
This is greatest article on the entire internet. Read everything by Eliezer Yudkowsky if you have any remote bit of common sense.
Zigphroid rated 13 months ago
From the page: "A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory."
soren202 rated 13 months ago
who says that making true AI will change anything? The way I see it, you can't really make something that anything more than the average of intelligence of a human on your first try at AI. Even that will only happen if your lucky. More than likely, we'll get something with an iq of 80. Impressive, but still nowhere near self-sufficiency. So... yeah, it will be interesting, but it won't fundamentally change the way we live. Not unless it's put to surprisingly good use, which I doubt.
AnnoyingMoose rated 13 months ago
Absolutely brilliant. 2^88 thumbs up.
cunyamunya rated 15 months ago
From the page: "The gray wet thing still seems mysterious to the gray wet thing."
M-104 rated 15 months ago
Hard for me to disagree with what's being said here. We can't see around the corner of the massive paradigm shift which will surely accompany the birth of the first general artificial intelligence. But we can be proud in knowing that we caused it.