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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Heading off a near-term AGI arms race - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: lincolnquirk 22 August 2012 02:23PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 August 2012 09:39:54PM 1 point [-]

There are proverbs about how trying to generalize your code will never get to AGI. These proverbs are true, and they're still true when generalizing a driverless car. I might worry to some degree about free-form machine learning algorithms at hedge funds, but not about generalizing driverless cars.

Comment author: MugaSofer 17 September 2012 01:24:13PM *  1 point [-]

There go my wild theories about Cars backstory.

Comment author: bogus 17 September 2012 02:58:00PM 1 point [-]

Fear not. There is actual research being done on making self-driving cars more anthropomorphic, in order to enable better communication with pedestrians.

Comment author: latanius 24 August 2012 02:00:12AM *  0 points [-]

Current narrow AIs are unlikely to generalize into AGI, but they contain parts that can be used to build one :)