I wouldn ' t really call it news . You knew he was going to be convicted and sentenced from day 0 of it happening , everybody knew it was politically motivated and everybody knows he ' s going to be out in 15 years . <| sep |> Everyone PLEASE read Goertzl on this topic and the notion of open ended intelligence . He gets so many things right . You should read Ben Goertzel ' s blog postarticle published on KurzweilAI . net . And the the academic paper by David Weinbaum Weaver , Viktoras Veitas on Open Ended Intelligence . After reading both these very insightful articles I have had a real shift in my views . To be honest I feel a bit silly in having been a bit too fascinated by Bostrm and Yudkowski LessWrong and had partly lost my bigger perspective . I won ' t try to sum up the two articles referenced above too much they deserve being read and understood properly . But what struck me is the simple notion that a lot of the fears and concerns regarding AI from the BostrmYudkowski camp stems from a basic misconception about what intelligence actually is . For example Bostrm ' s thought experiments on perverse instantiation the often used example of the paper clip maximizer that turns all matter and energy in the universe in to paper clips is just plain silly and far fetched . In a bigger perspective this is an example of thesis many different form of intelligence and goals are possible , we have no clue what a super intelligence would want , do or have as a goal . This , thinking of it in a common sense type of way , is of course a basic example of a straw man type logical fallacy why on earth would an artificial intelligence stemming from us humans , developed by human minds , interacting with humans be something completely alien to us ? The other basic logical flaw and fallacy is the notion that intelligence has explicit goals that can be defined , and that the only function and goal of intelligence is optimization in order to maximize the fullfilment of a given utility function point in case the paper clip maximizer . To put it plainly if there was an artificial intelligence as smart , or even much smarter , than the brightest of us humans , why on earth would it have one specific goal ? That seems utterly dumb . Instead , to quote Goertzel when talking about what Weinbaum and Veitas define as intelligence , makes much more sense Weinbaum and Veitas ' s recent paper OpenEnded Intelligence presents a starkly alternative perspective on intelligence , viewing it as centered not on reward maximization , but rather on complex selforganization and selftranscending development that occurs in close coupling with a complex environment that is also ongoingly selforganizing , in only partially knowable ways . Using this approach and common sense one is able to quickly dismiss a lot of the fears around AI based simply on their basic misunderstanding of what intelligence is and what intelligence aims to accomplish . I consider my self intelligent and to be honest I could never define what my goal in life is . I could , loosely , define a couple of goals in different areas , but they would still be very soft goals and very prone to constantly changing and evolving . On the other hand the thought of intelligence including my own intelligence as being the drive to seek increased understanding of a complex reality , seeking increased coordination and selforganization , being constantly curious , etc . feels very close to my heart . L i n k s f earspromisesandpotentials