Comment by pseudolus
8 years ago
It's not an intermediate goalpost. I'm referring to what essentially we're promised by those decrying AI who insist that it will match and exceed humans in terms of cognitive abilities.
As for it being 'game over', why? Is there something inherent in AI that would necessarily be inimical to human beings?
> As for it being 'game over', why?
Because, the further part of the story goes, machines think quicker and they'll go on improving even quicker, all while having potentially different goals from us.
To be completely fair, the facts on the table are: 1) no one knows where the "intelligence ceiling" is, and 2) in many tasks where machines outperformed humans (image labeling, porn classification, speech-to-text, games like go or chess) they keep on improving, sometimes well beyond the human level.