I have a new piece up at Discourse taking on our recurring fascination with the prospect of a robot apocalypse, in which humans are replaced, superseded, and eventually eaten by artificial intelligence. I’ve been thinking about this a lot for some years now, and I think I’ve come up with a way of articulating why I think this outcome is about as likely as the zombie apocalypse (which very obviously violates the laws of thermodynamics). The essence of the argument is this: “AI lacks three things we have that make us special and that a machine
I thought it funny 30+ years ago when people debated whether you should obey the directions from a computer. I would laugh and point out that they already did much worse by obeying the directions from a much dumber machine that changed lights from green to red at 2 in the morning with nobody else around.
I thought it funny 30+ years ago when people debated whether you should obey the directions from a computer. I would laugh and point out that they already did much worse by obeying the directions from a much dumber machine that changed lights from green to red at 2 in the morning with nobody else around.