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, @04:19PM
Oh, let's head down this road, I guess.
Define intelligence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @04:48PM
No, let's not. But I concede, adaptation occurs without *conscious* goals.