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“A powerful AI system tasked with ensuring your safety might imprison you at home. If you asked for happiness, it might hook you up to a life support and ceaselessly stimulate your brain's pleasure centers. If you don't provide the AI with a very big library of preferred behaviors or an ironclad means for it to deduce what behavior you prefer, you'll be stuck with whatever it comes up with. And since it's a highly complex system, you may never understand it well enough to make sure you've got it right.”
― Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
― Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
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“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
― 2010: Odyssey Two
― 2010: Odyssey Two
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
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“But on the question of whether the robots will eventually take over, he {Rodney A. Brooks} says that this will probably not happen, for a variety of reasons. First, no one is going to accidentally build a robot that wants to rule the world. He says that creating a robot that can suddenly take over is like someone accidentally building a 747 jetliner. Plus, there will be plenty of time to stop this from happening. Before someone builds a "super-bad robot," someone has to build a "mildly bad robot," and before that a "not-so-bad robot.”
― The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
― The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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