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"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence."-Peter Thiel
A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is…
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1 author picked The Myth of Artificial Intelligence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There’s a lot of fear-mongering going around regarding the possibility of a superintelligent AI that could take over or even wipe out humanity.
Larson gives a clear rationale for why this is not going to happen and further, why it is a big mistake to expect computer reasoning to be like human reasoning. He explains the ways computers think and how they differ from the ways we do.
In short, we don’t have a clue how to give computers either consciousness or common sense. Without these, worrying about superhuman intelligence is worrying about the wrong thing. There is no way…
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