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Comment by bko

They're... numbers...

So you're telling me we could come across a series of numbers, that would somehow imbue the computer storing these numbers into sentience. And having these numbers in such a sequence could pose a existential threat to humans.

The people worried about this are having an entirely different conversation devoid of what practitioners call AI.

I've written a blog post on my thoughts of Bolstrom and other AI alarmists:

https://medium.com/ml-everything/ai-optimists-vs-pessimists-...

parent bko 7 years ago

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