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Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History'

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The world's most famous physicist is warning about the risks posed by machine superintelligence, saying that it could be the most significant thing to ever happen in human history — and possibly the last.


As we've discussed extensively here at io9, artificial superintelligence represents a potential existential threat to humanity, so it's good to see such a high profile scientist both understand the issue and do his part to get the word out.


 


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SIRI... NYOOOOOOO...

 

 

(Seems like stephen hawking doesn't like apple.. *cough*android fanboy*cough*)

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skynet by google. 

 

Wait a minute,

silver starts with s

skynet also starts with s

 

silver has 6 letters and 2 syllables

skynet also has 6 letters and 2 syllables 

 

Android silver must be skynet in disguise. lul :P

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This is a great WAN show topic, Linus.  Just sayin.

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It can be dangerous, not entirely but there is a risk of course.

 

That's my thought as well.  It's a place we should still explore but to think nothing could ever go work and unanticipated consequences couldn't show up is a little more than naive, it's plain stupid.  It's a very interesting topic.

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Nothing has been sent from the future to destroy me yet. So i don't think there is a need to worry  :P

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He's afraid if we talk to aliens they'll immediately murder us all because 'that's what whites did to Native Americans' or something. He keeps sounding more and more like a doomsday person

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Terminator :)

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I completely agree...the future is scary, I feel sorry for us, and even more for the next generation. But there is still hope, although I'm not sure if it is still worth it to trust humanity anymore, we suck in so many ways..

Back to the topic, if we make A.I that powerful, than we might want to disconsider it, imho

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That's my thought as well.  It's a place we should still explore but to think nothing could ever go work and unanticipated consequences couldn't show up is a little more than naive, it's plain stupid.  It's a very interesting topic.

The only way I could grasp the idea of "safe" AI is if we take it really slow, even if we're capable of it... even then it needs to have strong limitations. I'm not an engineer, my area is medicine but this sure is a very interesting topic to discuss without the "Skynet" jokes, because AI is not fiction anymore.

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I have to agree with Hawking, it's not your hollywood "doomsday prophecy", what he is implying is basically that we have to be very careful with AI.

"Warning about the risks posed by machine superintelligence, saying that it could be the most significant thing to ever happen in human history — and possibly the last."

 

It's actually true, we, as humankind need to be more careful with delicate matters such as AI, of course, we are talking about super advanced technology, not even remotely like today's.

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skynet by google. 

 

Wait a minute,

silver starts with s

skynet also starts with s

 

silver has 6 letters and 2 syllables

skynet also has 6 letters and 2 syllables 

 

Android silver must be skynet in disguise. lul :P

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Half life 3 confirmed

developed by google's private robot division by request from valve.

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skynet by google. 

 

Wait a minute,

silver starts with s

skynet also starts with s

 

silver has 6 letters and 2 syllables

skynet also has 6 letters and 2 syllables 

 

Android silver must be skynet in disguise. lul :P

what is this a half life 3 type joke lol

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Well, I tried to find some self-aware jokes relating to Google and stuff from MGS, but I found this.  ;)

 

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I think he is afraid of AIs doing everything for us which will cause us to be dependent and once the AI malfunctions we will be lost. (just my opinion about this but it may be wrong).

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skynet by google. 

 

Wait a minute,

silver starts with s

skynet also starts with s

 

silver has 6 letters and 2 syllables

skynet also has 6 letters and 2 syllables 

 

Android silver must be skynet in disguise. lul :P

Seems like you have been taken over by half life 3 conspiracy's....

 

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I think he is afraid of AIs doing everything for us which will cause us to be dependent and once the AI malfunctions we will be lost. (just my opinion about this but it may be wrong).

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I think he is afraid of AIs doing everything for us which will cause us to be dependent and once the AI malfunctions we will be lost. (just my opinion about this but it may be wrong).

I don't think he's limiting his comments to only that. I think there are also scenarios we haven't even imagined. Currently, we aren't exactly a species that likes to take our time with things and think them through. It's more than possible that something could happen that we never even imagined. In that lies some of the danger.

It's not all end of the world stuff but I think it's just important to raise awareness and make sure decisions are thought through. For once we need to think about the long term and not the short term, which the current generation running things does so horribly.

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We are on the path on simplifying every part of our daily lives, it will reach a point where we are AIs that are capable of fixed set of good responses that we interact with smoothly that also learns and improves based on our needs.

 

Imagine "Yui" from sword art online (only good example i can think of)

 

How she is actually just a complex ai program developed to interact with people, she then learns multiple things from that interaction (generates a huge database basically)

 

Next step = Self awareness or something close to that.

 

Now imagine this type of Ai being common in every household.

If they are able to communicate with each other, wham. 

 

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developed by google's private robot division by request from valve.

powered by oculus rift.... facebook....

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Hahahaha, i just watched Trancendence the other day and here comes Stephen Hawking warning us about A.I.
We are all doomed!

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powered by oculus rift.... facebook....

while being constantly sued by apple.

definitely half life 3 confirmed

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