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DaveJ

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4. Maybe it's not worth thinking about
Reply to RC (Reply #3)
Sun Mar 23, 2014, 10:05 PM
Mar 2014

Right now it's very sought after skill to be able to design the applications that we carry around in our pockets. But when or if computers become intelligent enough to do that for us, I guess having any skill won't really be needed at all, so I should not worry about it.

But just in case, I was wondering how to prepare. I mean, say, if Google is the company that will invent this AI, are they doing anything to make sure it is benevolent, or is it futile and pretty much we just need to see what happens. If we're lucky and it is it is benevolent I wonder and what role will we play at that point?

For a frame of reference, here's an article that references Ray Kurzweil an engineer at Google, and recipient of National Medal of Technology and Innovation from Clinton, who says AI with outthink us by 2029:

http://www.naturalnews.com/044074_rise_of_the_machines_Google_robots_Ray_Kurzweil.html#

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