Reddit reviews Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence
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I found this story to be an entertaining representation of a superintelligent AI, and I also recommend the book Smarter than Us to be a good discussion of why AI is so dangerous. The author is completely wrong that AI is not more serious than climate change, and it's ironic that they said others were doing the anthropomorphizing. They assumed that to cause human extinction requires malice (a human trait) when all it requires is a goal system orthogonal to human values. We're made of atoms that could be put to better use, and even human centered goals could easily result in our distinction (ending war, disease, and poverty can easily be achieved by killing all humans. Write a patch that says not to do that? imprison all humans. Write another patch. Lobotomize all humans. Write another patch. Drug all humans.)
They also don't seem to know what they are talking about with the terms strong and weak, broad and narrow AI. A paperclip maximizer is strong, broad AI.
Is it possibly this book you were talking about. I wrote a review about it earlier (I'm the one with initials R.A.I.O), but still haven't read it, but it seems to discuss my project. My project is to create super strong weak AI to help humanity. That is, it will only be a tool aiding demand driven innovation, without any type of consciousness or self awareness, like wikipedia, google or wolframalpha, but focused on enabling technological evolution, thus freedom and individuality, induce abundance and remove artificial scarcity, thus disable. the incentive for monetary crime.
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The Mentifex AI Minds -- MindForth that thinks in English; Wotan who thinks in German; and Dushka -- she thinks in Russian -- are not yet "smarter than us", but they are now able to think with automated reasoning by logical inference and they demonstrate the
Rise of Machine Intelligence.