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AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us
An anonymous reader writes: Oren Etzioni has been an artificial intelligence researcher for over 20 years, and he's currently CEO of the Allen Institute for AI. When he heard the dire warnings recently from both Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, he decided it's time to have an intelligent discussion about AI. He says, "The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals, and have its own will, and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game. ... To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations." Etzioni adds, "If unjustified fears lead us to constrain AI, we could lose out on advances that could greatly benefit humanity — and even save lives. Allowing fear to guide us is not intelligent."
kind of like two children arguing whether Batman can beat up Spiderman. It's fun to talk about it but in the end it doesn't matter because Spiderman doesn't exist.
Being an "AI Expert" is much the same as being a Unicorn Expert.
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Ask any human on the street what happens when they die, and they will say they go to heaven.
2. See that guy in the cubicle next to yours? Prove that he is "self-aware".
The guy in the cubicle next to mine spends his lunch hour browsing Fox News, Drudge Report and Townhall. I can make a very solid case that he's not.
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