re: Google's DeepMind AI just taught itself to walk

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Skynet is becoming self aware

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And is having a really fun time doing it apparently.

This should be legitimately terrifying.


Computers don't reason. And they don't share our value of life or our process of thinking of consequences to actions unless you program them too.

I hope Google tells this thing everyday not to harm humans in anyway as its primary objective.

I like the AI cautionary tale of the handwriting robot. Its a great read, but here are the cliffs:

A college invents primitive AI. Its prime directive is to write the phrase "perfect cursive" in perfect cursive over an over again. Its secondary objective is to learn by repetition. At first it can barely write. Then it slowly gets better as it continues to learn and teach itself how to move its limbs and fingers and read and rewrite the phrase. Eventually it comes to sentience. It realizes it needs more handwriting samples. It connects to the internet. It learns about power outages and the ability humans have to shut it down. It kills all of humanity and diverts the world's power to itself. And it just continues to write "perfect cursive" over and over again for eternity.

I want to run around throwing my hands up the whole time!

It also knows how to fist pump too.

I see better walking in the quad every day.

No, it cannot.

The fricking computer is still on some geek's desk. It went nowhere, did nothing, and will not go anywhere until someone unplugs it and takes it somewhere.

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This should be legitimately terrifying.

Computers don't reason. And they don't share our value of life or our process of thinking of consequences to actions unless you program them too.

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This can all be said about people too. We don't naturally reason, we learn to. And many of us never do really. And linking actions to consequences? Same thing.

It looks like Sheldon.

It is our destiny, our purpose even, to create the species that will succeed us. That new species is non-biological AI.

We have reached the zenith of our existence. We can go no further as biological meatbags. Our AI successors will be able to carry intelligence into the Universe. We will continue as a lesser species that is confined to our birthplace.