Re: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

[John Newman]

> On Feb 16, 2017, at 5:11 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:05 AM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
>> There's always the 3 laws of robotics ;)
>> 
>> Nick Bostrom  doesn't seem to think it will be that easy of course. His "Superintelligence" book is an interesting look at the problem. He's far more pessimistic and i think realistic than Ray Kurtzweil and some other "singularity" hypes..
> 
> Is man in the likeness of god?
> And if so, or if not, then what is man's AI / bot in the likeness of?
> Does this become circular?

Man is in the likeness of a chimpanzee ;)

A super intelligent AI would be more in the likeness of "God" (up until now just a fairy tale) than anything that has come before. I don't think it's circular, it's progressive.