Mo Gawdat on LinkedIn: There are lots of worries surrounding the rise if AI. When humanity is… | 105 comments

Some predict that with the dawn of AGI, machines that can improve themselves will trigger runaway growth in computer intelligence. Often called “the singularity,” or artificial superintelligence, this future involves computers whose ability to understand and manipulate the world dwarfs our own, comparable to the intelligence gap between human being

The rise of AI forces us to consider what it means to be human. The Age of AI addresses the significant question of “whether there is a form of logic that humans have not achieved or cannot achieve, exploring aspects of reality we have never known and may never directly know” (16). For the authors, the advancement of AI could mark a positive step c

It’s not the code we write to develop AI that determines their value system, it’s the information we feed them.

The big question, as we evolve into the future of the hyperintelligent machine, is not a question of control but one of ethics.

The discovery of deep learning as a way to teach machines intelligence set us on a path, the destiny of which is pretty much determined. Three inevitables await us: 1. AI will happen, there is no stopping it. 2. The machines will become smarter than humans, sooner rather than later. 3. Mistakes will happen. Bad things will happen.