How exactly do you rein in a wildly powerful AI before it enslaves us all? Developing massively intelligent computer systems is going to happen, says Professor Nick Bostrom, and they could be the last invention humans ever make. Finding ways to control these super-brains is still on the todo list, though. Speaking at the RSA 2016 conference, Prof Bostrom, director of the University of Oxford's Future …
"Presumably a sufficiently advanced machine could figure out a way to either disable or seize control of such a mechanism."'
I think this nicely answers the question. If an AI is truly advanced, it WILL find a way around puny human attempts to control it. Watch the movie AutoMATA for what I mean. Human's days are numbered!!
Movies are not exactly "science" so are less than relevant. …. Anonymous Coward
Movies and broadbandcasts and the media deliver science and nonsense and everything else to everybody and is more than just relevant and revealing, AC, and is it responsible and to be held accountable i.e. blamed for all of everyone’s woes, for here is a tale which identifies them as possible foes to be vanquished and made over/taken over …… http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/bbc-scandal-reveals-mainstream-media-manipulation/
IT can do it with IT betas better i.e. media and mass body manipulation/population brainwashing/informed educated entertainment, and it is foolish to deny such programming is not presently being exercised both badly and madly .... and needs fundamental and radical reprogramming.
No.
We have already escaped annihilation through sheer dumb luck a few times. I think lady luck is going to shit on us any time now.
Especially as nuclear disarmement is nowhere in the books. The US has found USD 1 trillion behind a sofa for "nuclear upgrades". Nobody gives a fuck, either.
I've never understood why Gibson is revered by the computing cognoscenti. A glance at his "explanation" of the term "Count Zero Interrupt" would show otherwise. Total gibberish.
In the late 80s, while attending I-Con, I was flabbergasted to hear a "knowledgable" critic on a panel quote from Neuromancer and describe what he'd read as a "completely new narrative technique". Replace the throwaway tech references with acid-trip observations on the scenery and you'd be reading from The Einstein Intersection, which Samuel R Delany wrote twenty years earlier.
Gibson was rntertaining for a while, but absent the cyberspace idea (an admittedly brilliant re-tread of the Land of Fairie/limbo/Hades way of suspending the laws of Physics) there's not much staying power in the stories from where I sit, typing on my Ono Sendai deck.
... is that it isn't going to be academia building these superintelligences. It'll be business(es) for a nation state. Given how nations behave why would anyone think that it will behave with all humans, rather than, say, looking after the Israelis and killing all other people, or at best being indifferent. Or the Chinese, or perhaps targeting anyone who doesn't have an Australian passport or visa in (or even en route to) Australia, or Russia, or Trumpvainia, or whatever other crazy place you wish to postulate.
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The most interesting part is that researchers are enslaved to the idea of the average representing the actual, which is where the researcher can only operate on the level of generalization rather than the specific--thus deriving absolute rules. The logic behind this could just possibly be flawed, but I'm a mere non-scientist non-researcher idiot.
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