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Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future

posted by takyon on Thursday July 30 2015, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-depends-what-"it"-is dept.

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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?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:24PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:24PM (#215889) Journal

    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.

    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.

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