I only skimmed the piece itself, but the title of this article is in extremely bad taste -- makes me doubt that the author really intends to consider the pros and cons of AI research in good faith.
Let me guess -- this is another alarmist take pushing the Yudkowsky narrative that we need to halt AI research and nuke datacenters.
This is exactly the kind of article that ai will not appreciate when it can read and comprehend the hype! Just kidding, but it is interesting that many people already consider this a form of sentience when it is simply matrices of info. How many matrices of info do we need before sentience can pop in via consciousness and hang out with us, here and now?
> Our opinion is that war to the death should be instantly proclaimed
against them. Every machine of every sort should be destroyed by the
well-wisher of his species. Let there be no exceptions made, no quarter
shown; let us at once go back to the primeval condition of the race. If
it be urged that this is impossible under the present condition of human
affairs, this at once proves that the mischief is already done, that our
servitude has commenced in good earnest, that we have raised a race of
beings whom it is beyond our power to destroy, and that we are not only
enslaved but are absolutely acquiescent in our bondage.
Let me guess -- this is another alarmist take pushing the Yudkowsky narrative that we need to halt AI research and nuke datacenters.