Calum Chace > Quotes

“Today, while the world hangs on every utterance of Justin Bieber and the Kardashian family, relatively few of us even know the names of Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, two men who quite literally saved the world.”
― Calum Chace, Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

“Will we even know when the first AGI is created? The first machine to become conscious may quickly achieve a reasonably clear understanding of its situation. Anything smart enough to deserve the label superintelligent would surely be smart enough to lay low and not disclose its existence until it had taken the necessary steps to ensure its own survival. In other words, any machine smart enough to pass the Turing test would be smart enough not to. It”
― Calum Chace, Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

“It states that “intelligence measures an agent’s general ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.” (2)”
― Calum Chace, Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

“We have achieved two of the alchemists’ three dreams. We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Overcoming death is next!”
― Calum Chace, Pandora's Brain

“intelligence measures an agent’s general ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.”
― Calum Chace, Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

“Milton Friedman — Human wants and needs are infinite, which means there is always more to do.”
― Calum Chace, The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism

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― Calum Chace, Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence