Tag: superintelligence
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Extinction Risk from Artificial Intelligence.
…when I started reading about AI safety, I was great at finding reasons to dismiss it. I had already decided that AI couldn’t be a big danger because that just sounded bizarre, and then I searched for ways to justify my unconcern, quite certain that I would find one soon enough. Cohen, M. (n.d.). Extinction…
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‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
Zachary Lipton, an assistant professor at the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, watched with frustration as this story transformed from “interesting-ish research” to “sensationalized crap”. According to Lipton, in recent years broader interest in topics like “machine learning” and “deep learning” has led to a deluge of this type of opportunistic journalism, which…