Perhaps We Can Avoid Long-term Mass Unemployment
I love it when I’m wrong on the big existential crises. It hasn’t happened often, but it may have just happened on the biggest; the one which precipitated all of our efforts. (It in no…
Tag: AI
The Importance of Triple Redundancy in Crucial Systems
(I have touched upon this topic in another blog and in the book. I regard it as more important than I have previously been able to do justice, and indeed beyond what I am capable…
An AI epiphany
In movies such as The Terminator, The Matrix and so forth, self-aware AIs come into existence and soon threaten humanity. This thinking is reflected in the arguments by Musk, Hawking and others against creating strong…
Do AIs Need to Have Fun?
The AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber has argued in a talk that there is a precise way to optimize a self-improving superintelligence based upon Godel’s mathematics. He further explained this in a paper audaciously named “Formal…