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DHagar
8/22/2017 4:40:43 PM
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RE: Contest Winners
Congratulations - all! What great brains and creativity!
This was a fun one, Mike!
Re: i i i everything else
@mp: Elon Musk's not alone... For the most part, I think a lot of the anti-AI warnings are so much baseless scaremongering when it comes to the more minor stuff in the grand scheme of things (particularly when it comes to the whole "They took our jerbs!" fear), but there is a very real existential threat.
There's a great play called R.U.R. -- the first work to coin the term "robot" -- from about 100 years ago that quite lucidly and intelligently lays out such a dystopian future.
mpouraryan
8/22/2017 6:50:29 PM
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Re: i i i everything else
What I would humbly note though, @Joe, is that we have to make sure we maintain the ultimate "oversight" of it all--Facebook did as it shut down a few of the Languages--if we harness it right, the possiblities are limitless. I am reminded of a recent article by the WSJ's Greg Ip who noted, "..we survived Spreadsheets...we'll survive AI...". It is up t us (and some of our work here underscores this--to create the future--and it does not matter what age one is!!!
elizabethv
8/23/2017 8:44:45 AM
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The competition was fierce!
Congrats to the winners! Surely Mike's eclipse glasses helped him wade through his plethora of choices. :-) Good times were had by all.
mhhf1ve
8/23/2017 12:41:13 PM
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Re: The competition was fierce!
Hopefully, his eyesight has returned to normal after staring at all these entries -- some of which were brighter than the sun....
mhhf1ve
8/23/2017 12:43:19 PM
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Re: Fun
Thanks, Joe! This was a really fun cartoon -- who doesn't love a good robot?
Re: Fun
@mhh: Emphasis on good.
Thumbs up to C3PO and R2D2. Thumbs down to Skynet. ;)
mhhf1ve
8/24/2017 2:13:18 PM
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Re: Fun
Haha.. exactly. Only good robots are welcome...
Because even "neutral" robots could paperclip maximize us to extinction or leave us to die locked in a bunker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)
dcawrey
8/25/2017 12:55:32 PM
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Re: Fun
@mhh: Don't forget the dreaded "grey goo" scenario...
...although since then, one of the original "grey goo" paper writers has since backed off of the theory, postulating that the scenario -- because of how complex nanotechnology is -- could never happen by sheer accident and would have to be very purposefully implemented.
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