[engnr567]

I don't quite understand the sudden optimism around the feasibility of strong AI. The only major advancement in the last two decades seems to be neural nets in pattern recognition. Before deep learning, pattern recognition wasn't even considered proper AI. The other advancements seem to be just based on better compute and not a new revolutionary idea.

I hope people also get to hear from researchers on the other side of the argument (like Michael Jordan): the real risk is not super-intelligent AI destroying human race, but stupid AI being handed over control of critical aspects of our daily lives.

[Upvoter33]

Strong agreement w/ you. The Jordan article (https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-re...) is a good one to read.

On top of that, we should be having this discussion w/ or w/o AI -- letting algorithms of any kind make critical decisions in society is fraught with dangers large and small, and something we should do with eyes wide open and great deliberation (something seemingly challenging in today's political reality).