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2016-10-12 Science & Technology

Woz thinks AI will not be as threatening as feared and will have far more benefits

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 08:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Some people had the same view of Obama 8 years ago in the face of warnings.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-12 09:36|| 2016-10-12 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Hot sex robots will be the end of humanity. Birthrates will plummet once the fembots are affordable enough.

AI won't have the time to become a danger.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-10-12 09:49|| 2016-10-12 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 machines smart enough to think really the way a human does

Why would we want to dumb them down?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-12 10:00|| 2016-10-12 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ...to join the ranks of other uninformed voters?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-12 10:16|| 2016-10-12 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Fears of AI are way overblown. I, for one, welcome our new self-driving-sexbot-Skynet overlords.

Posted by Iblis 2016-10-12 10:40|| 2016-10-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 We could leave.

Posted by Shipman 2016-10-12 11:10|| 2016-10-12 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Why would we want to dumb them down?

To be fair, the harnessing of our illogical functions, creativity - innovation, is a strength if most of the time a failure.

Let me know when a robot can grab a roll of duct tape and a modified trash bag to re-direct a water leak into the sump pump.

But I did like the ST:TNG episode where, and I poorly remember, a colony was dying because they become so generationally dependent upon the AI that when it broke nobody could fix it, and LaForge was like, "Come'on, I was fixing things like this in kindergarten."

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-10-12 11:37|| 2016-10-12 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 The thing missing from AI, IMHO, is the sense of self/desire to improve ones environment.

The basic WHY of human creative activity isn't there. Of course I'm not sure I want robots asking these kinds of questions on their own.......

Posted by AlanC 2016-10-12 11:59|| 2016-10-12 11:59|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm nervous. If robots who serve us
Determine our natural purpose
Is turning things shitty,
It sure won't be pretty
When earnest AI learns to curb us.

Grrrr.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-10-12 15:49|| 2016-10-12 15:49|| Front Page Top

#10 we have no jobs left

I have been hearing this my entire life with every new technology. It's nonsense.

When the telephone was being rapidly adopted, extrapolating forward, in 50 years, everyone would need to become a telephone switchboard operator.

And of course, computers are called computers, because large numbers of mostly women worked at manually performing complex calculations and they were called computers.

New jobs will come along. Although there some jobs that would appear to have poor future prospects - long distance truck drivers in particular.

Posted by phil_b 2016-10-12 17:00|| 2016-10-12 17:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Woz hasn't read Kurzweil's book "How to Create a Mind". It isn't done with a bigger iPhone.

The world Jeopardy champions have been beaten by a computer.

Posted by KBK 2016-10-12 21:39|| 2016-10-12 21:39|| Front Page Top

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