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Subject: Re: On-Line Book About The Dangers Of AI Becoming Too Powerful

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 11:01:55 10/15/99

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On October 14, 1999 at 13:07:24, Graham Laight wrote:

>There is a very thought provoking book available on line at
>
>http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris/artilectwar.html
>
>My major criticism is that since it is written by a scientist who is trying to
>reproduce the human brain, the chapter about how AI will enable machine
>intellect to match the human level focuses too much on literally reproducing the
>human brain.
>
>Those of us who follow computer chess KNOW that there's more than one way to
>create an attribute of intellect (in this case, chess playing ability).
>
>Regards,
>Graham

A very powerful article.

However, I do not agree with your criticism. The exact how of the creation of
such constructs is not the main point of concern. My concern (I guess I am a
Terran) is that it appears to be inevitable that this type of thing will
eventually occur (in one form or another). Personally, I am not exactly pleased
with the idea that my grandchildren or great-grandchildren may drop a notch on
the food chain (figuratively). It's bad enough that powerful people have always
been able to make powerful decisions which adversely effect others. This
alternative has the potential to be much much worse.

I would recommend that everyone on this forum read this article in it's entirety
(it's about 100 pages I think, so it is long) and make up their own mind.

Although this is not really computer chess related (only in an oblique AI sort
of way), I am glad you brought it to our attention Graham.

KarinsDad :|



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