ciphergoth comments on Elon Musk donates $10M to the Future of Life Institute to keep AI beneficial - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RyanCarey 15 January 2015 08:59:49PM *  28 points [-]

Excellent news. Considered together with the announcement of AI scientists endorsing a statement in favour of researching how to make AI beneficial, this is the best weeks for AI safety that i can remember.

Taken together with the publication of Superintelligence, founding of FLI and CSER, and teansition of SI into a research organisation MIRI, it's becoming clearer that the last few years have started to usher in a new chapter in AI safety.

I know that machine learning capabilities are also increasing but let's celebrate successes like these!

Comment author: ciphergoth 15 January 2015 09:23:50PM 24 points [-]

If you'd asked me two years ago I would have put today's situation in the most optimistic 10% of outcomes. It's nice to be wrong in that direction :)

Comment author: Benito 16 January 2015 06:10:52AM 1 point [-]

Damn. Good point. Woo!