membrain's comments

smart - nope. pretentious guesswork and attention whoring is what is going on here

> friendly AI problem

nooo, please!! not any more of this kurzweil crap. guys wake up! This world is not some asimov sci-fi story.

friendly ai

I always get a headache when I read that term online. ppl seem to go crazy about the machines taking over earth idea but this whole debate is so utterly useless! If all the effort fapping to conscious AI and friendly AI would be put into concrete ai research (agi as well as applied ai) we would get to a reasonable point so much sooner...

can we please put this right on top of the whole page and close this thread? too many ai-fanboys in here, who got their knowledge about ai from hollywood movies and video games..

this hypothesis is around since at least the 70s (Vernon Mountcastle' paper on cortical similarities), recently (2004) hawkins also published a book in which he promoted the same idea, on which he is currently working with his AGI company numenta.

to be honest, it sounds really great and it could even be the case that there is a very general underlying principle to cortical information processing and pattern recognition. But one should be careful not to mix solid scientific hypotheses with mainstream media hysteria and people who try to grab attention with their simplifications, claiming today that entropy maximization is the underlying principle and changing to sparse coding tomorrow. We are not that far and what we need is solid research instead of over-the-head assumptions and claims "to have solved the riddle" (in that respect, it might not be that far off alchemy :P)