On: Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk

[nielsbot]

Part of me wonders, though, could we "just" connect up an inference engine and voila? We could really be on a cusp of general AI. (Or it could be a ways off) That's a bit frightening in several ways.

[hackeraccount → nielsbot]

I kind of expected AI to be AI - and not a mirror.

[nielsbot → hackeraccount]

Meaning it wouldn't necessarily be human-like?

[hackeraccount → nielsbot]

That'd be a start I think. Or at the very least if it was in a room alone there would be something there.