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Vika comments on Yoshua Bengio on AI progress, hype and risks - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: V_V 30 January 2016 01:45AM

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Comment author: Vika 30 January 2016 04:59:54AM 8 points [-]

The above-mentioned researchers are skeptical in different ways. Andrew Ng thinks that human-level AI is ridiculously far away, and that trying to predict the future more than 5 years out is useless. Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio believe that advanced AI is far from imminent, but approve of people thinking about long-term AI safety.

Okay, but surely it’s still important to think now about the eventual consequences of AI. - Absolutely. We ought to be talking about these things.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 30 January 2016 08:01:43AM *  12 points [-]

+1 To go even further, I would add that it's unproductive to think of these researchers as being on anyone's "side". These are smart, nuanced people and rounding their comments down to a specific agenda is a recipe for misunderstanding.