Are You Ready for a Worse Dystopia Than 1984?
10th May 2019
The concerns about robots and artificial intelligence have come from scientists who express worries about killer robots with super intelligence taking over from dumber humans with less capabilities. Possibly, but it is more likely that these kind of concerns stem from an incorrect model or understanding of mind, consciousness, and creativity. I do wish that Michael Polanyi were still with us to give us his take on our proclivity to attribute intelligence to machines.
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Thus, the main focus of the coauthors is on the massive economic dislocation that will result from making people superfluous.