Comment on against "AI risk"

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:40:57 GMT

Apparently it's also common to not include uploads in the definition of AI. For example, here's Eliezer:

Perhaps we would rather take some other route than AI to smarter-than-human intelligence

say, augment humans instead? To pick one extreme example, suppose the one says: The prospect of AI makes me nervous. I would rather that, before any AI is developed, individual humans are scanned into computers, neuron by neuron, and then upgraded, slowly but surely, until they are super-smart; and that is the ground on which humanity should confront the challenge of superintelligence.

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