Category Archives: AI

AI as an existential threat – Kevane preliminary draft

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“What can it do?” A living list of computational problems that deep learning/AI/neural nets can or seems likely to “do” (at varying cost and efficacy)

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The typical popular sci-fi version of AI posing an existential risk?

Plenty of science-fiction stories and movies have as plot the defeat of a super-intelligent and autonomous AI that poses an existential threat to humans. In the usual backstory, the AI at some point developed goals that seemingly impelled the AI … Continue reading

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AI productivity growth and “the economy”

I’m preparing for a course I am teaching, so am intending to start regularly writing on the blog as a way to livestream my thoughts. Hopefully, I will maintain momentum for a long while. My first thoughts, while reading Nordhaus’s … Continue reading

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