Re: “Working to build AGI right now is certainly a bad idea, at best leading nowhere, at worst killing us all.”
The marginal benefit of making machines smarter seems large—e.g. see automobile safety applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4EY9_mOvO8
I don’t really see that situation changing much anytime soon—there will probably be such marginal benefits for a long time to come.
Re: “Working to build AGI right now is certainly a bad idea, at best leading nowhere, at worst killing us all.”
The marginal benefit of making machines smarter seems large—e.g. see automobile safety applications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4EY9_mOvO8
I don’t really see that situation changing much anytime soon—there will probably be such marginal benefits for a long time to come.