Listening to Nate Silver & Mari Konnikova’s new podcast, I learned a new term: p(doom). Probability of doom, haha
Come to find out, there’s a table of values, too.
If nothing else, AI is pretty entertaining.
Or rather, it’s entertaining as long as we’re talking about programmers, podcasters, and other notables forecasting doom, that is. “Truly autonomous” AI weapons, whose existence (or near existence) I learned of just today, are another story.
The phrase itself — truly autonomous — escalates my own sense of p(doom), that’s for sure.
Catherine & Katharine 