‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind

Like the DeepMind founders, the AI safety contingent believed that human-grade machine intelligence was not only possible but imminent. The urgent task, as they saw things, was to make sure that AI systems didn’t go awry. They took inspiration from a 1960 essay by Norbert Wiener, an American mathema...

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