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The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence

📅 2022
technical research breakthrough
🔵 Rare

📖 Description

0 The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford Digital Economy Lab http://brynjolfsson.com Forthcoming in D?dalus, Spring 2022 In 1950, Alan Turing proposed an ?imitation game? as the ultimate test of whether a machine was intelligent: could a machine imitate a human so well that it?s answers to questions indistinguishable from a human?s.1 Ever since, creating intelligence that matches human intelligence has implicitly or explicitly been the goal of thousands of researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs. The benefits of human-like artificial intelligence (HLAI) include soaring productivity, increased leisure, and perhaps most profoundly, a better understanding of our own minds. But not all types of AI are human-like ? in fact, many of the most powerful systems are very different from humans ? and an excessive focus on developing and deploying HLAI can lead us into a trap. As machines become better substitutes for human labo...

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Variable Direction Condition
Research proposed: up Always
Papers proposed: up Always
Vibey Doom proposed: up Always

💭 Reactions

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