Google’s Go Victory Is Just A Glimpse Of How Powerful AI Will Be by Cade Metz.
Cade manages to summarize the implications of the Google Go victory and the future danger of AI in one concise sentence:
Bostrom’s book makes the case that AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, not only because human could misuse it but because we could build AI systems that we are somehow not able to control.
If you don’t have time for the entire article, that sentence summarizes the article as well.
Pay particular attention to the part that reads: “…that we are somehow not able to control.”
Is that like a Terex 33-19 “Titan”
with a nuclear power supply and no off switch? (Yes, that is a person in the second wheel from the front.)
We learned only recently that consciousness, at least as we understand the term now, is a product of chaotic and cascading connections. Consciousness May Be the Product of Carefully Balanced Chaos [Show The Red Card].
One supposes that positronic brains (warning: fiction) must share that chaotic characteristic.
However, Cade and Bostrom fail to point to any promising research on the development of positronic brains.
That’s not to deny that poor choices could be made by an AI designed by Aussies. If projected global warming exceeds three degrees Celsius, set off a doomsday bomb. (On the Beach)
The lesson there is two-fold: Don’t build doomsday weapons. Don’t put computers in charge of them.
The danger from AI is in the range of a gamma ray burst ending civilization. If that high.
On the other hand, if you want work has a solid background in science fiction, prone to sound bites in the media and attracts doomsday groupies of all genders, it doesn’t require a lot of research.
The only real requirement is to wring your hands over some imagined scenario that you can’t say will occur or how that will doom us all. Throw in some of the latest buzz words and you have a presentation/speech/book.