AH. The word “pretension” overused and amusingly wrongly utilized by those of the lowest intellectual caliber on the internet. You disparage warmongers in your original comment, yet your response to my comment is quite violent and warlike. How typical and boring. The world won’t be reduced to ash. But you most…

It was not “a turd”. But it certainly was not this masterpiece of sci-fi that some people are trying to make it. I still maintain the best film I have seen about “AI” and robotics. Is Robot and Frank.

If by “the world” you mean earth, then it is amazingly ironic and a profound cosmic joke that what gave rise to us has also allowed us to reach the means of our and it’s utter destruction. By the way the world will never be in ashes. Earth is a ball of hardened space dust. It feels nothing has no mind, it’s not a…

He’s right. Sci-fi is comically unrealistic, indulgent, and it’s fanbase is primarily composed of angry man-children. Even the simplest of topics that can be so effectively pondered and have well told and logical stories crafted around them in measured and even doses, are degraded by fantastical and impossible…

And yet, these are the same people pouring money into tech projects that deal with AI. These multi-billionaire capitalists tell us to be afraid of AI, yet are actively building AI.

I still have no idea why the idea of the world war continues to be pushed. There have never been true world wars ever. The first "world war" was nearly exclusively a European War . I prefer the term the Great War. World War 2 was another European War centered around European dominance for African and Asian colonies.…

Amusing. I need to find a job like George Dvorsky where I get paid to type up absolute tosh.

The very fact that this has to be explained is baffling.

I can't really answer that question. I'm not sure anyone can. What human beings know and experience of consciousness is fundamentally tied to the meat/fleshy substrate. If you could replicate human consciousness; Professor Max Tegmark has an idea that consciousness is simply a mathematical pattern, if so, if you could…

Your comment is splendid.

And therein lies the rub. Humans are "meat machines". Computers and computer code are not and cannot be. They do not think neither do they operate as humans or any animals for that matter. In fact, engineers and scientists do not want machines and computer code to operate as biology does at all. Not that they could…

Yes all technologies have been an existential threat. They all were economically/socially/politically disruptive, the species eventually got over it.

You use the word "think". Computers and computer code do not think. Yes chess programs(and other computer programs) are so powerful because it is so narrow. Please tell us how a computer is going to have the ability to think for itself when humans can hardly do it? A string of computer code is implicitly and…

Please explain to me how something("AI") that will have been programmed every step of the way and have multiple and redundant safety measures ie "kill switches" ever become "more intelligent" or more dangerous than those that programmed it? How will a machine become sentient? Why would scientists program a machine to…

The very term "AI" is idiotic. I am glad they are people like Lanier who remain rational and measured even while being so close to so much techno doomsday prophets and techie corporate pimps trying to push sub par products and erroneous ideas on the masses.

Oh Elon Musk. No we don't.

Indeed. I am always amazed at how fast those little critters can move. Now you increase those traits to human size and we've got a contender.

Things have gotten this bad huh?

Oops. Meant to type most superheros.

Every superhero would die at the hands of a trained sniper actually. Even Superman. He'd be shot in the heart or the brain with a kryptonite bullet and that would be the end of it.