> It is hard for me to empathize with Musk’s fixation on evil super-intelligent AGI killer robots in a very distant future.
This reminded me of a talk by Andrew Ng I watched recently [1]:
"Worrying about evil AI robots today is a little bit like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars ... how do you not care ... and my answer is we haven't landed on the planet yet so I don't know how to work productively on that problem...of course, doing research on anti-evil AI is a positive thing but I do see that there is a massive misallocation of resources."
This reminded me of a talk by Andrew Ng I watched recently [1]:
"Worrying about evil AI robots today is a little bit like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars ... how do you not care ... and my answer is we haven't landed on the planet yet so I don't know how to work productively on that problem...of course, doing research on anti-evil AI is a positive thing but I do see that there is a massive misallocation of resources."
Nice talk all around if you can find the time.
[1] https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=37m45s