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An Open Letter To Everyone Tricked Into Fearing AI
malachiorion writes If you're into robots, AI, you've probably read about the open letter on AI safety. But do you realize how blatantly the media is misinterpreting its purpose, and its message? I spoke to the organization that released letter, and to one of the AI researchers who contributed to it. As is often the case with AI, tech reporters are getting this one wrong on purpose. Here's my analysis for Popular Science. Or, for the TL;DR crowd: "Forget about the risk that machines pose to us in the decades ahead. The more pertinent question, in 2015, is whether anyone is going to protect mankind from its willfully ignorant journalists."
We are not even remotely close to the Terminator level strong AI
The problem is that once you reach a point where AI can participate in its own improvement, then that improvement can advance at an exponential rate. We may go from "not even remotely close" to "to late to stop it" faster than you realize.
it's still a big open question whether such a thing is even possible at all.
We already have a working example: The human brain. So, of course it is possible, unless you believe that the human mind is based on some sort of magic.