What's up with the media and the continuous fear mongering

Popular science has no logic or reason, they just latch onto one meme topic and make up sensationalist shit for the ad revenue.

Remember when people genuinely thought 3D printing would bring on the age of post-scarcity?

>>58886935
A.I. is taking huge steps toward general intelligence now that there are algorithms that have the Program teach itself endlessly rather than have information + logic spoonfed to it via it's own programming.

A.I.s are beginning to learn the same way human brains do, only millions of times faster.

>>58886935
>Jenny
whats up with you having shit taste?

Anyway what happened is they report on and get their storylines from various Smart People who've fallen for a meme - thinking AI is some kind of existential threat to humanity. (Prominent example: Stephen Hawking)

Why do smart people fall for this meme? Engineer's Disease.

>>58887061
They want to feel special or just do this as a media PR thing?

Robots do take jobs though. And machine learning means more social engineering

>>58887084
Getting the idiot masses interested in science is always beneficial to their cause even if it's under false pretenses.

>>58886935
They've seen too much terminator

>>58887084
that's not what engineer's disease is. Engineer's disease is assuming that since you know a lot about one thing, your knowledge must be transferable to related or similar areas. Stephen Hawking knows an awful lot about physics and cosmology. That doesn't necessarily imply that he knows anything about AI, AI is an entirely different field. But recognizing the limits of someone's knowledge - especially your own - is very difficult. It's hard for smart people to realize that there are things they don't actually know much about, and hard for them to admit it if they do realize it. And its hard for the masses to realize that very smart people aren't smart about everything, they're only smart in their field.

>>58887175
Oh. Thanks. That makes sense.