Manny’s Reviews > Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence > Status Update

"I very rarely cry, but that's what I did on the way out - and in a tunnel full of pedestrians, no less, en route to the South Kensington tube station. Here were all these people going about their lives blissfully unaware of what I was thinking."

I sometimes feel that way too! He's right, it is terribly sad.

○ It's unclear how to imbue a superintelligent AI with an ultimate goal that neither is undefined nor leads to the elimination of humanity, making it timely to rekindle research on some of the thorniest issues in philosophy!

I'm quoting character for character, bullet point, exclamation mark and all. Fear not. Our fate is in safe hands.

So we have to become one with the superintelligent machines and go out to populate the universe, cuz stuff. Like, what are the alternatives? Hang around and meekly wait to be exterminated by the death of the sun or a stray meteorite or the GOP?

It's like he read my mind. I'm embarrassed to be this transparent. So the science-fiction thread has now introduced a (simulated) hot woman, and there's been some (simulated) nudity. I think some (simulated) sex too, but he's unaccountably coy about that.

The first lethal crash caused by a self-driving Tesla, which rammed into the trailer of a truck crossing the highway on May 7, 2016, was caused by two bad assumptions: that the bright white side of the trailer was merely part of the bright sky, and that the driver (who was allegedly watching a Harry Potter movie) was paying attention and would intervene if something went wrong.

Consciousness Subjective experience.

Qualia Individual instances of subjective experience.

- from the Terminology Cheat Sheet

Now this is more like it! No dull philosophy yet, the first chapter is unashamed science-fiction. Though I'm just a little disappointed that none of the AI researchers are hot women.