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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Mar 28

    I especially recommend AI expert Peter Bentley's "The Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence: Dispelling Common Myths" (I make similar arguments in Enlightenment Now). http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EPRS_IDA(2018)614547 …

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      2. 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣‏ @pravengov Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Strawmen, Strawmen everywhere... No one doubts that AI, in its current state, is going to have massive benefits in almost every aspect of human life, and stands no chance of achieving sentience. What some people like @elonmusk are warning about is the that as algorithms

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      3. 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣‏ @pravengov Mar 28
        Replying to @pravengov @sapinker @elonmusk

        Improve, nobody including researchers know what may happen in the future beyond a time horizon of 20 or 100 years.

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      1. Olle Häggström‏ @OHaggstrom Apr 1
        Replying to @sapinker

        Feel free to consult my slightly more critical take on Bentley's paper: http://haggstrom.blogspot.se/2018/03/a-spectacularly-uneven-ai-report.html …

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      1. David Ericson‏ @dpericson1 Mar 28
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        Computers can't even compute (truly a human activity), much less think (see H. Dreyfus' book 'Why Computers Can't Think'). Now I'm not sure, given the big data and inferential power of the most powerful chips/software. 'Machine learning' needs philosophical dissection for sure.

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      1. Eh'den‏ @eh_den Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        #AI is humanity 21st century nuclear power. Sure it can make this world a better place, but like nuclear energy it can also wipe us out. #AgnosticismNow #nuclear

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      1. Paul Topping‏ @PaulTopping Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        1) Saying that we don't have general AI now, while true, doesn't mean we won't ever. I guess it needs to be said but can't be considered part of the argument. The same can be said of any technology ever developed. We don't have it until we do.

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      1. Verity Pipe-Dream  🌦‏ @Twitashitter Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        I preferred Jaws.

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      1. Tom Now Free‏ @tomnow3 Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think all these arguments miss a basic point. Human intelligence was not created by humans but by an evolutionary process that is a lot more complex than anything we are capable of devising. Yes, AI can kill us but so can many other things.

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      1. Paul Topping‏ @PaulTopping Mar 28
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        3) An artificial brain that is smarter than us might well be a good thing. The real risk is from speed and access. Imagine the threats we now face from human hackers multiplied by several orders of magnitude. A cloud-based AI-driven hacker would be devastating.

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      1. Paul Topping‏ @PaulTopping Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        2) Spontaneous supremacy is a straw man. Sure, it won't come from nothing. Instead, malevolent or careless humans will remove or disable the safety mechanisms.

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      1. Jesús Nieto  🇪🇺‏ @SolenFlandes Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        No danger 😉:"If we could create a super-intelligence (SI), there is no evidence that such a SI AI would ever wish to harm us. Such claims are deeply flawed, perhaps from observations of human behaviour, which is indeed very violent. But AIs will not have human intelligence."

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      1. LaurieEndicottThomas‏ @LaurieEThomas Mar 28
        Replying to @sapinker

        Artificial intelligence has the potential to amplify and institutionalize our natural stupidity.http://nottrivialbook.com/2017/07/15/in-peer-review-we-need-more-natural-intelligence/ …

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter Apr 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        If you want a real practice in Miami, come to life.

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter Apr 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Also as a PhD?

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      1. DarkEmper0r‏ @DarkEmper0r Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is why AI is dangerous:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeecOKBus3Q …

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter Apr 3
        Replying to @sapinker

        Start investing in tropics.

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      1. Roger Titcombe‏ @rogertitcombe Mar 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        See also my Review of Enlightenment Now in which I take issue with some of Steven's AI assumptions…https://rogertitcombelearningmatters.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/enlightenment-now/ …

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      1. Calum Chace‏ @cccalum Mar 29
        Replying to @sapinker

        Bentley's argument is facile, as demonstrated clearly by one of the other authors in the same collection!

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      1. Tim S‏ @tim333 Mar 29
        Replying to @sapinker

        Some of the arguments seem silly. eg Myth 3 - as speeds increase so does AI - allegedly wrong because "Intelligence requires comprehensive testing". But look at AlphaZero - just by playing itself it went superhuman in chess, go and shogi in less than 24hrs. Testing not needed.

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