Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Franklin Wayne Poley (culturex@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 21:56:31 MDT


On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, J. R. Molloy wrote:

> > And what will it accomplish in terms which laymen can understand, the way
> > we understand a computer playing chess better than a human or doing
> > arithmetic better than a human?
> > FWP
>
> If laymen can't understand that they will become obsolete, then it has already
> accomplished more than they ever can.

Could you please rephrase this? If you mean that Super-AI would make human
intellectual activities largely obsolete, then that may be a major source
of resistance to any such project.
FWP



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