<div dir="ltr"><div><p>“I think I have a more balanced view, I think that both outcomes are
on the table, the extremely good and the extremely bad,” he says.</p>
<p>“But it makes sense to focus a lot on the possible
downsides to see the work that we need to put in – that we haven’t been
doing to date – to make sure that we don’t fall through any trapdoors.
But I think that there’s a good chance we can get, if we get our act
together, a really utopian future.”</p>
<p>In fact, Bostrom’s book isn’t a cut-and-dried
analysis of how any machine intelligence would likely be an evil megabot
intent on wiping out the human race. Much of the book focusses on how
easy it would be for a machine intelligence to believe itself to be
happily helping the human race by accomplishing the goal set out for it,
but actually end up destroying us all in a problem he calls “perverse
instantiation”.</p><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/03/ai_expert_nick_bostrom_talks_to_el_reg/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/03/ai_expert_nick_bostrom_talks_to_el_reg/</a><br><br><br></div>John : )<br></div>