Being fearful about artificial general intelligence right now is akin to being afraid of overpopulation...on Mars. Anyone who has worked in machine learning research knows just how far we are from such a thing. It is not an exaggeration to say that neural networks simply are not capable of being the technology behind a supposed general intelligence. These ridiculous claims need to stop, especially because there are very real problems in privacy and bias that we do need to focus on.
Gnafets t1_ja2xy23 wrote
Reply to Why the development of artificial general intelligence could be the most dangerous new arms race since nuclear weapons by jamesj
Being fearful about artificial general intelligence right now is akin to being afraid of overpopulation...on Mars. Anyone who has worked in machine learning research knows just how far we are from such a thing. It is not an exaggeration to say that neural networks simply are not capable of being the technology behind a supposed general intelligence. These ridiculous claims need to stop, especially because there are very real problems in privacy and bias that we do need to focus on.