Artificial General Intelligence

[iknowu99]

What did you think about AlphaGo beating best human Go player?

 

[DocAElstein]

What did you think about AlphaGo beating best human Go player?

It scares me. I am hoping still that if a Computer program is written by a Person or Persons, then a Person or Persons should know how to keep control of it and “Beat it”. I am not saying that the Person or Persons who wrote this program could not beat it. I hope they could. I do not know.
But I frequently come to the conclusion that something is going on in a program that no one understands. Maybe someone or a team of people did once understand it, but the program just got too big for the people to either be:_....
able to;
want to;
or (due to commercial pressures for example ) be allowed to
_.....document fully enough for anyone , ( including themselves ) to refer to in order to know what is going on.
I am often wrong. I hope I am in this case.
Alan

“Pull the Plug while you still can, I say”