Gigaom AI Minute – February 26

Transcript

The range on when people think we will get an artificial general intelligence ranges from five to five hundred years. Generally speaking, people who think it is coming sooner are in the camp of people who are most likely to be concerned about it, and think that it's potentially a threat to humanity. Why do people disagree so much on this question? I think it boils down to five distinct reasons, and I'd like to cover each one of them in an AI Minute episode.

Number four, whether or not they're, for lack of a better term, down on humanity. People who think that the AI is coming soon, and that it may be a threat, typically think that human ability, like creativity, isn't really all that mysterious, or all that difficult, that it's pretty straightforward, that, you know, we're pretty straightforward computational devices. Other people who think it's further away and not as much of a threat, think that there are human abilities that we have, intellectual abilities, that, not only are they incredibly complicated, we don't even understand how they work.