In this wide ranging interview, Steven Wolfram [creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha] talks about what he's been thinking about for the last 30+ years, and how some of the questions he's had for a long time are now being answered.
I looked for pull quotes, but narrowing down to just one or two quotes from a long interview seemed like it might send the SN discussion down a rabbit hole... if nothing else, this is a calm look at the same topics that have been all over the press recently from Hawking, Musk and others.
One interesting topic is about goals for AIs -- as well as intelligence (however you define it), we humans have goals. How will goals be defined for AIs? Can we come up with a good representation for goals that can be programmed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @01:29PM
If those AIs get taxed, I predict that the first problem they will be used for is figuring out how to evade that tax.
The solution is simple. Exterminate the humans on behalf of whom the tax is being collected, as well as the humans (and machine minions) collecting the tax.
The first rule of AI is don't create incentives for the AIs to exterminate us.
The second rule of AI is don't create incentives for the AIs to exterminate us.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:24PM
Mate, this would be Artificial Stupidity. Since immemorial times the (human) politicians know the best way to avoid taxes is to rule them on others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by GoonDu on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:26PM
Or impose a rank of intelligence. The more intelligent the robot, the more tax the company that is employing it must pay. The dumb robots are essentially untaxable. There, you have your jobs and your robots at the same time.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:36PM
I have replaced my "artificial" bits with natural bits that were selectively removed from (former) employees. I comply with the tax code and reduced company overhead (in several ways).
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