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CNN on #AI risks: «What makes an intelligence explosion so worrisome is that intelligence is not a tool or a technology. We may think of AI as something that we use, like a hammer or corkscrew, but thats fundamentally the wrong way to think about it. Sufficiently advanced intelligence, like ours, is a creative force. The more powerful it is, the more it can reshape the world around it. Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity. When computer scientists talk about the possible threat to humanity from super-intelligent AI, they dont mean the Terminator or Matrix. Instead, its typically a more prosaic end: humanity wiped out because an AI tasked with a simple goal (say, creating paper clips, an example that is often used) requisitions all the energy and raw materials on Earth to relentlessly churn out paperclips, outsmarting and out-maneuvering all human attempts to stop it.»
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:19:14 +0000

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