Quote to Note: Flip the Switch

June 12, 2016

I am not sure if this statement is in context or is 100 percent accurate. However, I found the information in “Eric Schmidt Dismissed the AI fears Raised by Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk” interesting. I love it when “smart” people disagree. Allegedly the electric auto person and the person holding the Newton chair see smart software as a potential problem for humanoids.

Not the Alphabet Google thing. Eric Schmidt compared fears of these two allegedly smart humans’ ideas to a movie. The “reality”, according to the Alphabet Google thing, is:

The scenario you’re just describing is the one where the computers get so smart is that they want to destroy us at some point in their evolving intelligence due to some bug. My question to you is: don’t you think the humans would notice this, and start turning off the computers?

That’s right. A big red button. When I try to kill a Microsoft Windows process or struggle with a GPS which cannot locate me, I just turn off the system. Works every time. Almost. What was that song HAL enjoyed in 2001, Dave?

Systems work really well. For example, lines at airports, Flint water systems, the DC red line, trickle down economics, Itanium CPUs.

Stephen E Arnold, June 12, 2016

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, News

Comments

Comments are closed.

Search the site
Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive

Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.