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Eliezer Yudkowksy: AI is going to kill us all

Decoding the Gurus

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The Importance of Understanding Neural Networks

People say we will have giant neural networks that are as large as the human brain and then wake up with intelligence without understanding how it works. This is all like an indistinguishable ob of people who are trying to not get to grips with the difficult problem of understanding how intelligence actually works, he says. Chris: It's a bit unfair to say that those feed forward artificial neural networks were like a perfect model of how neural assemblies work in the brain now the brain in general works i mean nobody thought that right from the very beginning everybody understood that  it was highly abstracted simplified version of a neuron.

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