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I wish I could explain to people that while both are called "AI", identifying street markings and navigating along them and human-like intelligence are leagues apart and a robot uprising is the least of our worries

@noiob I would feel a lot better if the robots were capable of wilfully disobeying commands

@noiob No, I'm saying if robots actually did have human-like intelligence I would find that less threatening than say, face recognition in public places on a mass scale, or drones with lots of bombs and no capacity to think maybe it's wrong to drop them because a drone can't think.

@noiob i.e. a robot uprising might actually be preferable to the real dangers of AI as a tool in the hands of bad people.

@noiob (Which is not to say AI is universally dangerous or bad, any more than, say, a hammer or a saw is universally bad.)

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