<story><title>What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>Andrew Ng made a really good analogy to those afraid of strong AI destroying humanity: &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s like being afraid of overpopulation on Mars, we haven&amp;#x27;t even landed on the planet yet.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>charlesdenault</author><text>&lt;i&gt;If we create machines that learn as well as our brains do, it’s easy to imagine them inheriting human-like qualities—and flaws. But a “Terminator”-style scenario is, in my view, immensely improbable. It would require a discrete, malevolent entity to specifically hard-wire malicious intent into intelligent machines, and no organization, let alone a single group or a person, will achieve human-level AI alone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t this incredibly shortsighted? Ignoring all the questions regarding the morals and ethics an intelligent machine may &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; and affect the way it behaves... It used to take nations to build computers, then large corporations, then off-the-shelf parts by a kid in his garage.&lt;p&gt;The first strong AI will most likely be a multi-billion dollar project, but its creation will arguably usher in an era in which strong AI is ubiquitous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>To be fair, we do worry about contamination of Mars with microorganisms, which I believe is a better analogue for something with a potential exponential takeoff.</text></comment>
<story><title>What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619?href=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snemvalts</author><text>Andrew Ng made a really good analogy to those afraid of strong AI destroying humanity: &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s like being afraid of overpopulation on Mars, we haven&amp;#x27;t even landed on the planet yet.&amp;quot;</text></item><item><author>charlesdenault</author><text>&lt;i&gt;If we create machines that learn as well as our brains do, it’s easy to imagine them inheriting human-like qualities—and flaws. But a “Terminator”-style scenario is, in my view, immensely improbable. It would require a discrete, malevolent entity to specifically hard-wire malicious intent into intelligent machines, and no organization, let alone a single group or a person, will achieve human-level AI alone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t this incredibly shortsighted? Ignoring all the questions regarding the morals and ethics an intelligent machine may &lt;i&gt;feel&lt;/i&gt; and affect the way it behaves... It used to take nations to build computers, then large corporations, then off-the-shelf parts by a kid in his garage.&lt;p&gt;The first strong AI will most likely be a multi-billion dollar project, but its creation will arguably usher in an era in which strong AI is ubiquitous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ehudla</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s more like we haven&amp;#x27;t discovered Mars yet.</text></comment>