Computers can already “think” faster than humans. If we created AI software that was smarter than humans, it would think better, not just faster. Giving a monkey more time won’t necessarily help it learn quantum physics, because the monkey’s mind may not have the capacity to understand the concept at all. Since there’s no clear upper limit to how smart something can be, we’d expect superhumanly-smart AI to think on a level we can’t comprehend. Such an AI would be unfathomably dangerous and hard to control. (Adapted from here). (Policymakers)
Computers can already “think” faster than humans. If we created AI software that was smarter than humans, it would think better, not just faster. Giving a monkey more time won’t necessarily help it learn quantum physics, because the monkey’s mind may not have the capacity to understand the concept at all. Since there’s no clear upper limit to how smart something can be, we’d expect superhumanly-smart AI to think on a level we can’t comprehend. Such an AI would be unfathomably dangerous and hard to control. (Adapted from here). (Policymakers)