Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence

Linus is a legend in the computer industry but I disagree with him on this.  Once the singularity is reached no one can predict what will happen.  It is this uncertainty that concerns me.  Will machines conclude they are superior?  Will they willing accept orders from humans?  Who knows???

From Sophos Naked Security:

Linux creator Linus Torvalds pooh-poohs fears over Artificial Intelligence

When the final history of humanity is written 2015 might turn out to be an important year.

Quite how it's written will depend on who (or what) is writing it though, particularly if the author is a malevolent Artificial Intelligence of our own creation.

If we get to pen it ourselves then the middle of the 21st century's second decade might go down as a time when lots of very, very clever people temporarily lost their minds.

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