AI: A Future for Humans
The Reith Lectures
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General Purpose Ai
Ai is a type of general purpose machine that can learn to perform well across the full range of tasks that humans can perform. The problem with this approach was pointed out by norbut ne, the founder of sibenetics, in 19 60. He said if we use to achieve our purposes a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot interfere effectively, we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire. If we put the wrong objective into a super ligent machine, we create a conflict that we are bound to lose. i think that there's too much doominess these days in climate, in politics, and particularly in predictions about a
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