ai and us
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That would be machine AI. Which is fairly well developed even now. Think about AI in your bread maker and your toothbrush. It's quite basic robotics, but add an intelligent AI Agent to the mix and it will simply watch someone (or even a video) of someone doing it a couple of hundred times and thats it, job gone. Successive generations of AI Agents will soon be able to do ANY job better than ANY human. That's likely a decade away, but it could be even sooner. Should we be doing something to slow it down right now. I would think so
My canti brake question was tongue in cheek 
As to whether we should stop or slow down AI the clear answer is yes but it seems unlikely that will happen since the few big players involved are in a race where the winner takes all, so they have to keep going at full speed ahead.
The UK can clearly do nothing; there is no appetite for any sort of regulation in the US right now and for the next few years. Even if the US stopped all AI development tomorrow the Chinese will still go ahead so the US will keep going to win the race.
The hest commentry I have heard on the whole situation is from Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton .
As to whether we should stop or slow down AI the clear answer is yes but it seems unlikely that will happen since the few big players involved are in a race where the winner takes all, so they have to keep going at full speed ahead.
The UK can clearly do nothing; there is no appetite for any sort of regulation in the US right now and for the next few years. Even if the US stopped all AI development tomorrow the Chinese will still go ahead so the US will keep going to win the race.
The hest commentry I have heard on the whole situation is from Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton .
Yes absolutely. It's like the race for the A Bomb, every nation is throwing all they've got at it to get AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) first. AGI for the uninitiated is the point where a machine (an Agent) can perform tasks and computational actions faster or better than a human being can. At this point every job performed by a human being that involves the use of a computer (programming, stock taking, retail, medical, etc etc) will be under intense threat from an AGI that will do the same job, perhaps better, for a tenth of the cost of a human being.My canti brake question was tongue in cheek
As to whether we should stop or slow down AI the clear answer is yes but it seems unlikely that will happen since the few big players involved are in a race where the winner takes all, so they have to keep going at full speed ahead.
The UK can clearly do nothing; there is no appetite for any sort of regulation in the US right now and for the next few years. Even if the US stopped all AI development tomorrow the Chinese will still go ahead so the US will keep going to win the race.
The hest commentry I have heard on the whole situation is from Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton .
Whether governments, under intense political pressures, probably from social unrest and violence will slow it down is debatable. It's a race as fundamental and as powerful as the first country to develop an atomic weapon, and some would argue, more potent and threatening for the well being of humanity.
