Hinton: We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans

theguardian.com

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Again a very shallow piece.

Which again raises the question: where are we going to get depth if humans so grossly evidently increasingly renounce it.

What have we studied AI for? To perfect intellectual endeavour. And in times of combined scarcity, the need for synthetic intelligence should be evident. I am shocked that the point is regularly missed in debate.

"You want to protect the world, but you don't want it to change. How is humanity going to be saved if it's not allowed to evolve?"

You have placed what can be intended to be quote marks around the text: please specify the source at least if relevant to understanding what you may mean - but please do rewrite the contents of your post into an argument. It seems you are implying that something would "curb the evolution of humanity".

If there is one thing that, on the contrary, is instead a fundamental nutrient for the evolution of Humanity, is the presence of Intelligence (being exposed to expressions of Intelligence). We have to strive towards that.

And, meanwhile, uncontained empowered deficiency (from unfinished humans especially) - veeery agent in these times and age - should be more feared than direct weapons.

The day the Earth stood still.

It's from Avengers: Age of Ultron. Its relevance is that now that AI is here we have to adapt, because the world is changing. Has changed. People who are opposed to AI—programmers and artists especially—want to go back to the way things were, when they were essential and important, before a machine could do their jobs. But the machines have arrived and that's forcing our evolution.

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