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Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future

posted by takyon on Thursday July 30 2015, @01:01PM   
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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• Re:I like the idea, but it has one minor flaw... Re:I like the idea, but it has one minor flaw... (Score: 2) by GoonDu on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:26PM

  by GoonDu (2623) on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:26PM (#215891)

  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.

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• Re:I like the idea, but it has one minor flaw... (Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:36PM

  by tibman (134) on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:36PM (#215969)

  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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