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Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
RE: Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris
(November 4, 2016 at 6:27 pm)abaris Wrote:
(November 4, 2016 at 6:26 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: It would evolve. It would invent.

One simple question: HOW?

(November 4, 2016 at 6:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote: -because, again...we're nowhere near as fast as machine intelligence, we're -already- smoked on that count.  Even so, the idea that we havent been improving ourselves exponentially is false on the face of it.  It took a hell of a long time to discover fire, from kittyhawk to the moon was a relative flash in the pan.  Knowledge builds on knowledge.

We're talking about machines we built. We provide the materials, we put them together, we create the technology. How would it create a society of it's own to be threatening us? With our raw materials, our energy? With us watching, no less?
By having a human level intelligence.
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RE: Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris - by Excited Penguin - November 4, 2016 at 6:31 pm

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