Hmm, is it just me, or has Eliezer succeeded in getting his ideas mainstream, after only 7 years of popularizing them? Even if his name is rarely mentioned. Seems like his depiction of the AI risk is displacing the Terminator version.
There have been other sci-fi writers talking about AI and the singularity. Charles Stross, Greg Egan, arguably Cory Doctorow… I haven’t seen the episode in question, so I can’t say who I think they took the biggest inspiration from.
Hmm, is it just me, or has Eliezer succeeded in getting his ideas mainstream, after only 7 years of popularizing them? Even if his name is rarely mentioned. Seems like his depiction of the AI risk is displacing the Terminator version.
It’s probably a good thing if Eliezer’s name is never mentioned… I suspect we could have had far better early popularizers. Bostrom seems pretty good.
I don’t how to estimate it myself, so are these kind of depictions almost certainly because of Eliezer’s influence?
There have been other sci-fi writers talking about AI and the singularity. Charles Stross, Greg Egan, arguably Cory Doctorow… I haven’t seen the episode in question, so I can’t say who I think they took the biggest inspiration from.