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
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
“ Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them .”
Bart Kaspero • Dune's Magic Mushroom Origin Story
The human, with smoke obscuring its self-awareness, doesn’t realize its mind has been switched over to software automation, leaving the Higher Mind pretty helpless to take back the controls. This is when humans start trouble, for themselves and for others.
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
Andy McAfee, coauthor of The Second Machine Age, put his finger on the consequence of failing to do so while talking with me over breakfast about the risks of AI taking over from humans: “The people will rise up before the machines do.”
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
EVER-SMARTER COMPUTERS: FRIEND OR FOE?
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Although, as we saw with electrification, optimism is a natural response to the arrival of a powerful and mysterious new technology, it can blind us to more troubling portents. “The simple faith in progress,” wrote Norbert Wiener, one of the great theoreticians of information processing, “is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging
... See moreNicholas Carr • The Big Switch
I am sometimes asked when ‘real’ AI will arrive – meaning the era of super-intelligent machines, capable of transcending human abilities and superseding us. When this happens, I often answer: it’s already here. It’s corporations.