Manfred comments on To contribute to AI safety, consider doing AI research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 20 January 2016 09:34:02PM 0 points [-]

Sure... but machine learning is very important for AGI, it's not going to suddenly get replaced with hand-designed agents. This advice might apply better to subfields, like deep neural networks vs. hierarchical Bayesian models.