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An AI epiphany

In movies such as The Terminator, The Matrix and so forth, self-aware AIs come into existence and soon threaten humanity. This thinking is reflected in the arguments by Musk, Hawking and others against creating strong AIs. Due to a recent insight, I believe that self-aware AIs are not much of a threat to humanity, and […]

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Do AIs Need to Have Fun?

The AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber has argued in a talk that there is a precise way to optimize a self-improving superintelligence based upon Godel’s mathematics. He further explained this in a paper audaciously named “Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation”. He says “The simple but general formal theory of fun & intrinsic motivation […]