Reply to post: Re: Not Quite Right

Hey, Woz. You've got $150m. You're kicking back in Australia. What's on your mind? Killer AI

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Not Quite Right

I suppose this could be "more likely", but frankly from where I'm sitting the probability of either is asymptotically approaching zero.

Human civilization is a few thousand years old. One decent catastrophe and it's gone. Even a fairly minor one could set things back for decades - think a supervolcano eruption that cools the earth significantly for a decade or two and causes mass die-offs; that'll severely crimp most AI research budgets. I think odds are pretty good that we'll be gone before the self-actualizing machines or the mind-machine synthesis arrive.

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