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‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years (www.theguardian.com)
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Great headline, but ask fusion how long they have been 20 years away and how many more years they have...

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think AI will wipe us out

I think we will wipe ourselves out first.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We are the "creators" of AI, so if it wipes us out, that would be us wiping ourselves out.

    In the end, short of a natural disaster (not climate change), we will be our own doom.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    My thinking is that we will probably wipe ourselves out ourselves through war / conflict / nuclear holocaust before AI ever gets to the point of having any kind of power or influence to affect the planet or humanity as a whole.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    Growing up years ago, I found a book on my parents bookshelf. I wish I'd kept track of it, but it had a cartoon of 2 Martians standing on Mars watching the Earth explode and one commented to the other along the lines that intelligent life forms must have lived there to accomplish such a feat. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time, but it's stuck with me.

    It only took a Facebook recommendation engine with some cell phones to excite people into murdering each other in the ongoing Rohingya genocide. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html

    We don't need AI, and at this point it uses so much electricity that it is probably the first thing that would get shut down in a shit hits the fan moment.

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