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Fear our new robot overlords: This is why you need to take artificial intelligence seriously

[5.14.16]

...[I]f you’ve been paying attention to the news for the past several years, you’ve almost certainly seen articles from a wide range of news outlets about the looming danger of artificial general intelligence, or “AGI.” 

Steven Pinker...for the website Edge.org:

The other problem with AGI dystopias is that they project a parochial alpha-male psychology onto the concept of intelligence. Even if we did have superhumanly intelligent robots, why would they want to depose their masters, massacre bystanders, or take over the world? Intelligence is the ability to deploy novel means to attain a goal, but the goals are extraneous to the intelligence itself: being smart is not the same as wanting something. ...

Fear our new robot overlords: This is why you need to take artificial intelligence seriously [1]

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[ Sat. May. 14. 2016 ]

...[I]f you’ve been paying attention to the news for the past several years, you’ve almost certainly seen articles from a wide range of news outlets about the looming danger of artificial general intelligence, or “AGI.” 

Steven Pinker [5]...for the website Edge.org [6]:

The other problem with AGI dystopias is that they project a parochial alpha-male psychology onto the concept of intelligence. Even if we did have superhumanly intelligent robots, why would they want to depose their masters, massacre bystanders, or take over the world? Intelligence is the ability to deploy novel means to attain a goal, but the goals are extraneous to the intelligence itself: being smart is not the same as wanting something. ...

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[1] https://www.edge.org/news/fear-our-new-robot-overlords-this-is-why-you-need-to-take-artificial-intelligence-seriously
[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai
[3] http://www.salon.com/
[4] http://bit.ly/1Xrhrb8
[5] https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-myth-of-ai#25987
[6] https://www.edge.org/