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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on [Link] AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 28 January 2016 10:37:51PM 4 points [-]

"this is evidence that AI risk is near! And this is evidence that AI risk is near! Everything is evidence that AI risk is near!" And I'm pointing out that no, that's not how he acts.

In particular he apparently mentioned Go play as an indicator before (and assumed as many other people that it were somewhat more distant) and now follows up on this threshold. What else would you expect? That he don't name a limited number of relevant events (I assume that the number is limited; I didn't know of this specific one before)?