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by conmarap 2543 days ago
AI scares me. Even though I've used neutral networks and even more complex models/networks in projects and have a fair understanding of how they work, they still scare me a lot. Even though we are far away (supposedly) from creating a sentient AI, I can't help but think that AI will turn into something like "I am Mother" rather than C-3PO.

And yes, I understand that AI and machine learning can help us in ways that will advance our abilities in medicine, science, etc but we're human. if something can be used for evil, we should be sure that that will be attempted. We, as a species, have an annoying need of being the first and having control of everything. Only that AI may, in the future, be uncontrollable.
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oldandtired 2543 days ago
As far as AI are concerned, there is no intelligence in them - at all.

As far as understanding what intelligence is - we have a long way to go on that as well.

What these system can do, is process a large quantity of data and then match against a specific set of criteria. The problem is not the computer system but the actions taken by real flesh and blood people who do not question what these systems put out.

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conmarap 2543 days ago
Yeah,and that's the point I was trying to make about right now. But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence. Be it smarter than us or not. In the case of this model, it "could accurately simulate how the universe would look if certain parameters were tweaked [...] even though the model had never received any training data where those parameters varied."

This means that it somehow was able to figure something specific out based on data that had nothing to do with it. Whether by accident or because there's a correlation that we haven't yet figured out, this model was able to understand it. And that's amazing and scary at the same time.

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a0-prw 2542 days ago
> But at some point we'll find ourselves in the position of having created general intelligence

Why do you believe that ?

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rasz 2543 days ago
but "I am Mother" had benevolent AI and good ending
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conmarap 2543 days ago
All the robots were the same AI and it effectively killed off humanity because it thought that we were not good enough. When a machine starts killing us off because of dubious and intrinsically evil and selfish reasons, then I can't think it's benevolent.
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rasz 2542 days ago
It restarted humanity, like you do on a farm after a swine flu incident.
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