Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
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Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#2Maybe it’s just me right after a nap, but boy that was this year’s hardest and emptiest read. The only thing that became clear is you can buy more of it in a book format.
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#3Maybe it’s just me right after a nap, but boy that was this year’s hardest and emptiest read. The only thing that became clear is you can buy more of it in a book format.
You're not alone.
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#4I've read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, like many tech people. I get it. AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc.
We've been having the same conversation since the dawn of science fiction. If at any point there is a general confusion between what is artificial, and what is human, it will cause such an alarmist backlash that AI will always be kept in check, or destroyed..
No human wants to admit that they thought they were talking to a human the whole time when in fact it was a robot. For that reason alone AI will never be allowed to grow to a point where it threatens life "as we know it."
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#5I've read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, like many tech people. I get it. AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc. We've been having the same conversation since the dawn of science fiction. If at any point there is a general confusion between what is artificial, and what is human, it will cause such an alarmist backlash that AI will always be kept in check, or destroye…
Right now the size to which AI can grow is set by the size of the profit lingering on the horizon, as with all other things.
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#6I don't read all the shallow articles on the coming AI apocalypse, but I gave this one a try.
I was a bit disappointed about the lack of creativity in dreaming up an AI infested future.
People are able to force each other into gullibly working 40 hours a week, so that they can have shelter, food and a smartphone. This is not a rational thing, it is historically grown group think on a massive scale. Trying to use rational arguments to forecast what the future will look like based on this chaotic process seems silly at best.
Nobody in the 1400s expected cars, democracy, let alone Facebook. So if this AI thing is as good as the printing press, then I wholly expect everyone to clone themselves a couple of thousand times, inhabit interiors of planets, grow 500,000 years old before entering higher education, but not something mundane as "letting an AI fill in the paperwork to set up a company".
TL;DR, you can safely skip this article.
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#7I've read Daemon by Daniel Suarez, like many tech people. I get it. AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc. We've been having the same conversation since the dawn of science fiction. If at any point there is a general confusion between what is artificial, and what is human, it will cause such an alarmist backlash that AI will always be kept in check, or destroye…
> AI could take over and supplant a global government, threatening society, life, wealth etc etc.
How would we tell the difference?
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#8Why is it "AI threatens to..." rather than "AI opens opportunities to..."?
To me, there seems to be way more upside than downside, like pretty much every new tech
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#9Maybe it’s just me right after a nap, but boy that was this year’s hardest and emptiest read. The only thing that became clear is you can buy more of it in a book format.
It's from the section of the publication that is entitled: "Books interview/Artificial intelligence (AI)" (the book is The Coming Wave: "This is one aspect of the sunlit uplands of AI; the shadow side is largely what preoccupies Suleyman in his new book, written with the researcher Michael Bhaskar and ominously titled The Coming Wave."). Which based on your review seems to be a coming wave of literal tedium.
Re: Co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
#10I don't read all the shallow articles on the coming AI apocalypse, but I gave this one a try. I was a bit disappointed about the lack of creativity in dreaming up an AI infested future. People are able to force each other into gullibly working 40 hours a week, so that they can have shelter, food and a smartphone. This is not a rational thing, it is historically grown group think on a massive scale. Trying to use rati…
>I wholly expect everyone to clone themselves a couple of thousand times
Unless each of those clones can upload the unique experiences to my original self so that the original me gains from those experiences, then what's the point of the clone? Just build a generic robot. The only caveat would be if that clone is just doing boring drone work but solely based on the abilities of the original me, but please, do not upload those mundane experiences back to the original me.
A good use of a clone for me would be to send a clone me to a colony on Mars. Send a fleet of clone me on a multi-generation ship to distant stars. Leave a clone me at work doing whatever, while original me is traveling and experiencing the rest of this globe.