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Physicists, philosophers, professors, authors, cognitive scientists, and many others have weighed in on edge.org's annual question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? See all 186 responses here
Also, what do you think?
My 2ยข: There's been a lot of focus on potential disasters that are almost certainly not going to happen. E.g. a robot uprising, or mass poverty through unemployment. Most manufacturers of artificial intelligence won't program their machines to seek self preservation at the expense of their human masters. It wouldn't sell. Secondly, if robots can one day produce almost everything we need, including more robots, with almost no human labour required, then robot-powered factories will become like libraries: relatively cheap to maintain, plentiful, and a public one will be set up in every town or suburb, for public use. If you think the big corporations wouldn't allow it, why do they allow public libraries?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @07:36AM
AI is like a rifle. It is dumb to be scared by a rifle,it is wise to be scared by whoever is handling it. Now, who will handle powerful AI?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @10:24AM
"Now, who will handle powerful AI?"
Wall Street, who else?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 23 2015, @03:59PM
Given that even today Wall Street is basically run by computers, I think it would be more accurate to say that AI will handle Wall Street.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 25 2015, @12:11AM
Why is AI like a rifle? Humans aren't like rifles, now if we should create a human-like AI at some point what reason do you have to expect that it will be like a rifle?