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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 8

    How the media gets AI alarmingly wrong. It's just a technology, not omniscient malevolence waiting to be born.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong?CMP=share_btn_tw …

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      2. Simmo Simpson‏ @TweetSimmo Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        The risk is not malevolence, it's the 'control problem' that we won't perfectly align the goals of something more intellectually capable than our species. I thought you understood why so many AI experts see this as a potential existential risk but this is a strawman.

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      3. Darryl Richard‏ @darrylrichard23 Aug 8
        Replying to @TweetSimmo @sapinker

        Depends on your definition of "more intellectually capable." If the goal and the steps and conditions required to reach it are clearly defined, then computers are great. When these things are not clearly defined, computers are awful.

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      4. Simmo Simpson‏ @TweetSimmo Aug 9
        Replying to @darrylrichard23 @sapinker

        Precisely! This is a VERY hard problem to solve according to many AI experts

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      2. Jennifer O'Connell‏Verified account @jenoconnell Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        It’s not the technology I worry about, it’s the handful of unelected, overprivileged, out of touch elites in Silicon Valley who get to decide how, where, when why and in what manner we interact with it

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      3. Philip Burgess‏ @bigyospeck Aug 8
        Replying to @jenoconnell @sapinker

        In what manner are journalists elected to get to decide how, where, when, why, and in what manner we get our news? How many are elite and privileged enough to take the unpaid internships so key to getting where they are? Technology is market driven, we use what works best.

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      4. Jennifer O'Connell‏Verified account @jenoconnell Aug 9
        Replying to @bigyospeck @sapinker

        How many journalists have the control over our lives that Mark Zuckerberg or Sundar Pichai has?

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      2. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Aug 8
        Replying to @HavidTweets @sapinker

        Many of them are. I do think many alarmists overestimate how powerful intelligence can make an agent on its own though. It won't make them omnipotent. Intelligence most likely has hard limits (the limits of inductive reasoning) without scientific experiment for instance.

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      3. Jeroen W.‏ @HavidTweets Aug 8
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @sapinker

        There may be a hard limit, I don't know. But I do think there's a great chance that AI will be able to become a lot smarter than us. Even if there's a limit, it could already be very dangerous below that limit with misaligned goals. And I think the general uncertainty is enough-

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      4. Jeroen W.‏ @HavidTweets Aug 8
        Replying to @HavidTweets @Intrinsic29 @sapinker

        -a reason to invest in AI safety research.

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      5. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Aug 8
        Replying to @HavidTweets @sapinker

        Yeah, it'll for sure be smarter than us, imo. It already is (in a non-creative way). But it'll be massively limited in its ability to divine true or probable propositions about the world without running slow scientific experiments. But I'm very interested in funding AI research.

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      6. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Aug 8
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @HavidTweets @sapinker

        I actually consider myself a bit of a transhumanist. This line of innovation is more important to me than just about any other.

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      7. Jeroen W.‏ @HavidTweets Aug 8
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @sapinker

        It sure is smarter than us already in many area's. But when we're talking about ASI we're talking about it being smarter in (almost) all area's.

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      8. Jeroen W.‏ @HavidTweets Aug 8
        Replying to @HavidTweets @Intrinsic29 @sapinker

        I've also been questioning how it could circumvent scientific experiment but haven't come up with a satisfactory conclusion yet, so that is indeed a good argument.

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      1. foxbyte‏ @foxbyteme Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        That’s not what Stephen Hawking thought.

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      1. Outer Thinker‏ @nosoamerica Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        Have you been around humans lately? If you want to make machines that think like humans than evil AI is inevitable.

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      1. Savio Volpe‏ @Nay_Sayer_I Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        That would make a good debate topic with @SamHarrisOrg

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      1. Vaelin Van Gogh‏ @VaelinVanGogh Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        This article describes how the media sensationalizes concerns about AI and how reporters encourage readers to misunderstand the risks and worry about the wrong things. It does not change the reality that there ARE very serious AI risks that warrant concern and research.

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      1. onnlucky 🍀‏ @onnlucky Aug 9
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think here is a 90% chance that a potentially dangerous AI requires self-reflection and correction to solve problems and be effective at whatever it’s doing, and that such knowledge gathering also gathers moral knowledge and thus won’t be dangerous.

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      1. Greg Lang‏ @designheretic Aug 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        The linked Guardian piece engages in a bit too much ad hominem for my taste, though I must reiterate my respect your perspective (Enlightenment Now! is undeniably brilliant), and my view could be wrong. Here’s a fun-to-read, thoughtful counterargument:https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html …

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