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I want to go on record as noting that I think the term “artificial intelligence” is a misnomer. “Intelligence,” is…
The problem is the level of simplistic anthropomorphism in these discussions even from people that should know better. Personally I…
Yes, I was using “training data” in a loose sense. But that’s why these companies are working on automated web…
I don’t think we know, and I think people on both sides of the argument are badly overstating how certain…
I think that “existential risk” is less helpful of a category than “catastrophic risk”. For those who agree, the question…
Very intrigued by this subject and in order to follow comments, I have to comment here. Thanks for opening this…
It’s not so much that “it won’t happen here”; it might, in the sense that it might be that in…
This is curious, although one can imagine why–since he has an actual world view as opposed to a panache of sound bites and slogans–he would find this stunt so offensive.
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