{"id":24962,"date":"2016-04-25T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/adelaide-ai-pioneer-says-terminator-like-takeover-unlikely"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:01:46","slug":"adelaide-ai-pioneer-says-terminator-like-takeover-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/adelaide-ai-pioneer-says-terminator-like-takeover-unlikely","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide AI pioneer says Terminator-like takeover unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adelaide-ai-pioneer-says-terminator-like-takeover-unlikely.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Rodney Brooks, AI pioneer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIT\">@MIT<\/a> CS &amp; AI Lab; iRobot), is skeptical about artificial superintelligence:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference between science fiction robots and real-life creations was the concept of robots being able to learn and teach themselves independently. A person can generalise, but we don\u2019t have that kind of generalisation in any of these AI learning systems. So relax is my message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or is he? This article by ABC Australia was focused on the same unfortunate meme, the unlikely Terminator which nobody has ever seriously suggested is realistic: \u201cThe Terminator series of movies foretold the future of humans and robots with Skynet becoming self-aware and launching its own nuclear war. But Professor Brooks said that was just science fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What of serious singularity hypotheses?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-04-18\/adelaide-robotic-pioneer-prof-rodney-brooks-thoughts-on-ai\/7334250\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016&#45;04&#45;18\/adelaide-robot...ai\/7334250<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Rodney Brooks, AI pioneer (@MIT CS &amp; AI Lab; iRobot), is skeptical about artificial superintelligence: \u201cThe difference between science fiction robots and real-life creations was the concept of robots being able to learn and teach themselves independently. A person can generalise, but we don\u2019t have that kind of generalisation in any of these AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67652,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/67652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}