David Wheeler: Wall Street doesn't really have the ethos that we want training these things because then they will take advantage when they can. The psychology of individual power maximization leads to various perverted things and it's going to lead to perverted ways to shape the minds of the early AGIs, he says. But I think it will be good to give our female robot companion here a chance to pose a few questions. We fed her David your latest essay on AI and just had her pose a few Questions based on that. And let's see if the IT is working to get Grace's AI connected in this chat here.
Our special guest for the first episode of the Mindplex Podcast is David Brin, a scientist and science fiction author of more than 35 books over the last 40 years. His PhD in astrophysics from the University of California at San Diego led to his current involvement with NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program - (NIAC).
5. From David: "Okay this one is purely political, trying to get Democrats to try new tactics in phase 8 of the US Civil War: Polemical Judo, by David Brin: http://www.davidbrin.com/polemicaljudo.html