worrying about recursive self-improvement on australian TV (lateline) in 1996.

"maybe it's not 50 years, maybe it's 200 years" It was 30!

here's the whole 1996 conversation with @mckewmax, @rodneyabrooks, doug lenat, plus hugo degaris at the start. the part on RSI (not original with me; i.j. good had the idea in 1965) is around the 28 minute mark.

ahead of the curve David.

You called it.

I feel the danger with AI isn't that it's super intelligent, it's that at its core, it's dumb. It cannot understand. Much like a calculator working on a complex equation. It just does.

David, any wisdom on the principles required for ensuring AI alignment with the common good?

Maybe not 50 years. Maybe 30 years

I'm mesmerized by this haircut

You nailed it :)

Had you changed your mind on the likelihood of this by the time of your talk at the 2009 Singularity Summit where you said you thought most likely route to humanlike abilities was evolutionary, since that wouldn't necessarily lead to possibility of RSI?

I’m Hussein, the sole provider for my family. I have a baby and a pregnant wife. We're facing very difficult conditions. Any support means the world to us.

Un capo como siempre. Que fue de esa cabellera? 😕

chuck norris disagrees. He’s the best philosopher as Socrates would say

@Plinz “At some point we’re going to have to sit down as a species and say do we want this to happen”

Back when Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was only twice your age and thought AI was a typo. Good times.

wow

wonder when we'll focus on human recursion ai winning feels like a false choice / forced error