Kevin comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 16 January 2010 03:44:42AM 0 points [-]

As far as candidates for making AI other than the Singularity Institute, is there any more likely than Google? Surely they want to make one.

They have a lot of really smart AI researchers working on hard problems within the world's largest dataset, and who knows what can happen when you combine that with 20% time. Does Google controlling the AI scare you?

The US military or any government making the AI seems a recipe for certain destruction, but I'm not so sure about Google.

Comment author: Jack 16 January 2010 03:49:57AM 1 point [-]

I mentioned something along these lines before.

Comment author: Kevin 16 January 2010 03:51:15AM *  0 points [-]

Thanks for the link... also just googled my way to Peter Norvig speaking at the Singularity Summit saying they aren't anywhere close to AGI and aren't trying. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9774501-7.html

So I think it depends on 20% time for now which isn't exactly conducive to solving the hard problem, not to mention 20% time at Google isn't what it used to be.