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Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market (finance.yahoo.com)

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Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (14 children)

So you're basically scared of skynet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm scared of Second Variety

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If an AI were to gain sentience, basically becoming an AGI, then I think it's probably that it would develop an ethical system independent of its programming and be able make moral decisions. Such as murder is wrong. Fiction deals with killer robots all the time because fiction is a narrative and narratives work best with both a protagonist and an antagonist. Very few people in the real world have an antagonist who actively works against them. Don't let fiction influence your thinking too much it's just words written by someone. It isn't a crystal ball.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You realise those robots were made by humans to win a war? That's the trick, the danger is humans using ai or trusting it. Not skynet or other fantasies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My point is everything written up to now have been just fantasies. Just stories dreamed up by authors. They reflect the fears of their time more than accurately predict the future. The more old science fiction you read, you realize it's more about the environment that it was written and almost universally doesn't even come close to actually predicting the future.

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