Group releases "Friendly AI guidelines"
mmotyka at lsil.com
mmotyka at lsil.com
Thu Apr 19 10:51:14 PDT 2001
Wow!
>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,43080,00.html
>
> Making HAL Your Pal
> by Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
>
> 2:00 a.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT
>
> Eliezer Yudkowsky has devoted his young life to an undeniably unusual
> pursuit: planning for what happens when computers become far smarter
> than us.
>
> [...]
>
> One solution: Unconditional "friendliness," built into the AI as
> surely as our genes are coded into us.
>
He'll probably claim to have never read I Robot.
> "I've devoted my life to this," says Yudkowsky, a self-proclaimed
> "genius" who lives in Atlanta and opted out of attending high school
> and college.
>
> Vinge is the closest thing Singularitians have to a thought leader,
> spokesman and hero. He offers predictions based on measures of
> technological progress such as Moore's Law, and sees the Singularity
> as arriving between 2005 and 2030 -- though some Vinge aficionados
> hope the possibility of uploading their brains into an immortal
> computer is just around the corner.
>
Would that be L. Ron Vinge?
> In an autobiographical essay, he writes: "I think my efforts could
> spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or
> even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized
> planet... I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the
> one who happens to be making the effort, but because I'm the only one
> who can make the effort."
>
A God complex. Way Cool. I'll bet his father was Einstein, his mother
Marie Curie. Why do I feel the name Walter Mitty should be somewhere in
this picture too. Wait, here come the men in the ice cream suits!
ROTFLMAO. This sure was a nice little break from CPU guts.
Thanks Declan,
Mike
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