Almost all top level physicist in 1930 were highly dismissive about atomic bomb. Except a handful of them as Leo Szilard, who even patented it.
There are counter-examples where people were highly optimistic. One spectacular example would be the attempt of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell to derive all mathematical truths from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic. Recursive self-improvement (the strong SI definition) or “friendliness” might or might not be similar ideas.
What important have those characters you interviewed—discovered?
I think that the lack of important discoveries with respect to artificial general intelligence is part of the reason for their reservation.
I would ask those from Watson team, for example. Not an arrogant “semantic web expert”.
I am asking every single computer scientist, AI and machine learning researcher. Many hundreds. “Semantic web experts” are part of that group. So is the team from IBM Watson. I’ll get to them soon.
More importantly it is a class that increases (and turns over) faster than XiXiDu writes emails. It’s a good thing XiXiDu isn’t a GAI with a narrow goal. We’d end up with a suburb titled with a XiXidunium spam-bot!
There are counter-examples where people were highly optimistic. One spectacular example would be the attempt of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell to derive all mathematical truths from a well-defined set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic. Recursive self-improvement (the strong SI definition) or “friendliness” might or might not be similar ideas.
I think that the lack of important discoveries with respect to artificial general intelligence is part of the reason for their reservation.
I would ask those from Watson team, for example. Not an arrogant “semantic web expert”.
I am asking every single computer scientist, AI and machine learning researcher. Many hundreds. “Semantic web experts” are part of that group. So is the team from IBM Watson. I’ll get to them soon.
That’s quite a few...
More importantly it is a class that increases (and turns over) faster than XiXiDu writes emails. It’s a good thing XiXiDu isn’t a GAI with a narrow goal. We’d end up with a suburb titled with a XiXidunium spam-bot!