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comment by wasoxygen
wasoxygen  ·  509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk

Hoftsadter: It's not clear whether that will mean the end of humanity in the sense of the systems we've created destroying us. It's not clear if that's the case, but it's certainly conceivable. If not, it also just renders humanity a very small phenomenon compared to something else that is far more intelligent and will become incomprehensible to us, as incomprehensible to us as we are to cockroaches.

Q: That's an interesting thought. [nervous laughter]