Hollywood is filled with feel-good messages about how robotic logic is no match for fuzzy, warm, human irrationality, and how the power of love will overcome pesky obstacles such as a malevolent superintelligent computer. Unfortunately there isn’t a great deal of cause to think this is the case, any more than there is that noble gorillas can defeat evil human poachers with the power of chest-beating and the ability to use rudimentary tools.
From the British Newspaper ‘The Telegraph’, and their article on Nick Bostrom’s awesome new book ‘Superintelligence’.
I just thought it was a great analogy. Nice to see AI as an X-Risk in the mainstream media too.
Probably true. It’s not like Hollywood is an accurate source of information about anything. (Climate change, asteroid impacts, the legal system, the military, romance, sex, business, anything.) But I fail to see how this is a rationality quote. I’m sure there are many more quotes of the form “Group X is wrong about Topic Y.”
I would prefer to limit quotes to those that that teach us how to tell whether or how much Group X is right or wrong about Topic Y, and skip quotes that merely turn on the applause lights on a particular topic.
From the British Newspaper ‘The Telegraph’, and their article on Nick Bostrom’s awesome new book ‘Superintelligence’.
I just thought it was a great analogy. Nice to see AI as an X-Risk in the mainstream media too.
Probably true. It’s not like Hollywood is an accurate source of information about anything. (Climate change, asteroid impacts, the legal system, the military, romance, sex, business, anything.) But I fail to see how this is a rationality quote. I’m sure there are many more quotes of the form “Group X is wrong about Topic Y.”
I would prefer to limit quotes to those that that teach us how to tell whether or how much Group X is right or wrong about Topic Y, and skip quotes that merely turn on the applause lights on a particular topic.
The quote isn’t just about Hollywood being wrong, it’s about a specific way that it’s wrong.