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: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:07PM
No. No one decided that mattered. It lacks the identity of a goal in any real way.
Moreover, things not surviving contributes to the process just as much as organisms surviving. Natural selection and mutation plays out all on its own for any self-reproducing anything.
...I just realized I'm way too depressed to have one of my normal arguments.
(Score: 1) by miljo on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:23PM
So the meaning of life is something akin to nihilism, or 42.
One should strive to achieve, not sit in bitter regret.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 30 2015, @05:25PM
Not at all. I'm just sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @02:35AM
yes, someone did. each individual decides what to eat, where to sleep, and who to screw in order to survive.