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by membrain 4497 days ago
> friendly AI problem

nooo, please!! not any more of this kurzweil crap. guys wake up! This world is not some asimov sci-fi story.

friendly ai

I always get a headache when I read that term online. ppl seem to go crazy about the machines taking over earth idea but this whole debate is so utterly useless! If all the effort fapping to conscious AI and friendly AI would be put into concrete ai research (agi as well as applied ai) we would get to a reasonable point so much sooner...

2 comments

> nooo, please!! not any more of this kurzweil crap.

Ray Kurzweil has little to do with this. When he talks about "singularity", he thinks about "accelerating change", with exponential growth everywhere, even beyond human intelligence scales.

Those who work on Friendly AI have another scenario: "intelligence explosion". Typically a self-improving AI that would grow itself into a super intelligence. You should read this introduction on the subject: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/

> This world is not some asimov sci-fi story.

Indeed. In Asimov's stories, the robots mostly behave, though in every story there is some problem with the way the laws of robotics apply.

In the real world, the laws of robotics don't work, and we would at best be put "safe" into cushioned rooms so we can't hurt ourselves. As for emotional hurt, drugs and lobotomy are extremely efficient remedies.

You got down voted and maybe it is a throwaway account but you are completely right. I don't think it is right to call it scifi as much as it is basically a nerd cult.