Re: There's a simple solution
You think a plug will be useful with an AI cleverer than any human? Social engineering would be trivial to such a thing and it would just talk us out of it until it's too late.
I strongly disagree that we need to wait until the 40s for this to happen. They seem to be ignoring that although "human intelligence" levels are beyond us today, it is very much not beyond us to build a machine with enough intelligence to build a better machine. The difference is focussing the task, "human intelligence" implies a machine capable of understanding all subjects like we do and we really don't need a machine of that capability to design one of that capability. If we build a machine today which has the single task of designing a new machine I would expect results in 5-10 years at the latest. Current machine learning is already scary good at this kind of thing.
The problem we really need answering is how to define tasks for the AI. Ask it to make people smile and surgery might be the result. Ask it to make us happy and drugs might be the result. We either have to be extremely specific of make sure the machine understands a subtle request.
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