Quote from: ClockworkTrader on December 03, 2018, 05:04:03 PM

Quote from: ProperFerret on November 21, 2018, 09:21:10 PM

Quote from: thirsten on November 21, 2018, 03:56:55 PM

I think any one country becoming the global "superpower" of AI is unsettling.

As utopian as this sounds, the only way AI's evolution can be a positive thing is if we develop it collectively to create a post-scarcity world. It's the fight for resources in a resource-scarce world that fuel such competition in the first place.

Approaching AI from a competitive angle could end in humans being killed off.

This is my point actually. Both the US and China are competing countries and have different values they abide by. To have China as the leading power in a technology that could impact millions of lives at once should be worrisome. This is why I don't really mind the fact that Facebook, a company that is highly criticized, is working on AI development. I am not sure about the potential benefits of the company's initiative but I try to remain hopeful that its findings will be a substantial response to the Chinese technological expansion.

The same here. China`s rapid development rate is outright scary - they have mindset and approach different from the Western world, and they have all they need (or will have in a decade or two) to force their ideals on to the rest of the nations. I`m also glad that Facebook develops AI, I`m okay with threatened personal info if this abuse will somehow help to oppose.

More than that, China keeps on constant development while the USA, Russia and the EU are all concentrated on their internal and external conflicts. It may be too late to react adequately to Chinese expansion after all.

Good values should be the pillars of technological development and while I agree that in that regard, something must be done to counter China's expansion, it would be preposterous for it to be at the cost of our privacy.