It is not how probable a really powerful AI is, it is how probable TIMES its impact, of course. And this product is just HUGE in the absolute sense, what people tend to forget by the mistaken reasoning “0 times something = 0”. The first zero is not zero, and not even very small, so the second zero isn’t a zero either.
Therefore I am glad that there is SIAI, after all. At least I find it more important than the most of the Academia involved in AI. It was this Academia who maybe failed in AI research in the past decades. Not the SIAI, not the IBM and not the Google. Those (and others) might be just behind the schedule, by the schedule of others, that is.
OTOH, AI is not really a science yet. There was a little of aerodynamics in 1900, before the first planes. AI is almost all about innovating algorithms. More a garage endeavor than not. And here the SIAI is too short. Not enough pursue, as I know.
It is not how probable a really powerful AI is, it is how probable TIMES its impact, of course. And this product is just HUGE in the absolute sense, what people tend to forget by the mistaken reasoning “0 times something = 0”. The first zero is not zero, and not even very small, so the second zero isn’t a zero either.
Therefore I am glad that there is SIAI, after all. At least I find it more important than the most of the Academia involved in AI. It was this Academia who maybe failed in AI research in the past decades. Not the SIAI, not the IBM and not the Google. Those (and others) might be just behind the schedule, by the schedule of others, that is.
OTOH, AI is not really a science yet. There was a little of aerodynamics in 1900, before the first planes. AI is almost all about innovating algorithms. More a garage endeavor than not. And here the SIAI is too short. Not enough pursue, as I know.
Others will provide it, just watch!