Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on New Year's Predictions Thread (2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 January 2011 07:50:37PM 13 points [-]

General AI will not be made in 2011. Confidence: 90%.

I hope to hell you're underconfident about that.

Comment author: Matt_Stevenson 04 January 2011 08:58:43AM 2 points [-]

Would you classify MC-AIXI as a General AI?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2011 04:25:00PM 5 points [-]

Given Vast quantities of computing power, it would qualify as a very silly AGI which will eventually try dropping an anvil on its own head just to see what happens.

Roughly, no.

Comment author: Spurlock 05 January 2011 03:41:23AM 2 points [-]

Nice failsafe if it unexpectedly goes "foom" though.