People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.
-Pedro Domingos
sari azouttwitter.comPeople worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real worry is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world. -Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.”
Melanie Mitchell • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence. Machine stupidity creates a tail risk. Machines can make many many good decisions and then one day fail spectacularly on a tail event that did not
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