great post thanks...
Just a word about Hinton : he is not a science fiction writer...
I thought the 60 minutes AI segment was very good. The science fiction crowd will focus in on the destruction on mankind, while the science crowd will cheer the ability to perform 1 billion PHD man hours of research in a week.
Exactly right because apart from the spiritual stakes in this game, there is a power stakes, and we know what big corporations annihilated freedom in the last three years...
Imagine now they control A. I. ?
do you trust the like of Bill Gates ?
I dont think so... As i say i am optimistic... Criminal corparations will cease to exist in thirty years... If not we will all die..
The sad reality is that the criminal element will always exploit any advancement in technology to their advantage and our detriment. The future will be different but that doesn’t always mean better?