A Brief Note on AI

Paranoid speculations on AI are getting into the news again. I find those a bit hard to believe.

A large fraction of the speculations on AI come from people who imagine that a very large and complex software project can be completed without a very prolonged debugging period. In other words, I suspect it came from the Obamacare programmers.

A specialized software project (for example, a project to dismantle desert islands) might not need such a long debugging period.

On the other hand, the dangers of an AI might resemble the dangers of a universal State. On the gripping hand, all earlier releases of Leviathan have crashed.