
The Skeptics Guide #910 - Dec 17 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Is There a Dystopian Future for AI?
I think the big fear and concern when people start to get really dystopian about like the singularity and things is that they're like, at what point can we no longer control the AI? I mean, so I don't think that an AI has to be self-aware for it to be dangerous or cause a problem. The paperclip problem. It doesn't need to be aware that it's producing paperclips. It just has to be obsessed with produce paperclips. And I think you can. Yeah. But could you tell it then please stop producing these paperclips?" "Yeah," he says. "Well, yeah, I might say, well, you told me to produce them
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