Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

[Ming the Merciful]

...The pressing ethical questions in machine learning are not about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world, but about how people can exploit other people...

Good article !

Absolutely. A few weeks ago I played an experiment on one of the "Microsoft's Slots" games. It was a free game, and you did not play with "Real" money, only, (worthless), "Virtual" money and no goal at the end. The purpose of the game is to get you addicted to gambling, (did they think I was gullible). Over a couple of months I accumulated about two and a half billion coins, and winning the hourly bonus of billions of coins became elusive, (inbuilt Artificial Intelligence to make sure don't). The point is, after two months of playing it started to become boring, and I was playing less and less. Then I decided, "Experiment Time". I love playing, "Who is in command here", (and do I look stupid). So, for two weeks I ignored the game, knowing that the "Artificial Intelligence" was missing me, because each time you loaded the program, it showed how many hours it had been since you last played. Let's see who is the more intelligent here?

Finally, two weeks later I loaded the game. Honey, I am home. The game took twice as long to load than usual because I had confused the Artificial Intelligence, because once a week the weekly bonuses change, (incentives to buy extra coins and bonuses), and the game was two weeks out of date. I received the "Daily Bonus", and it was at least ten times higher than I would usually receive during normal play. It then loaded the "Hourly Bonus", and that too was unusually high. I then began playing. All very high winning spins. I, (literally), won in an hour, what would usually take a week. The wins were massive. After an hour of playing I stopped, (boredom was setting-in). Exiting the program. The next day I loaded the program. Honey, I am back. The program couldn't load. It loaded about fifty percent and stopped. I think I messed-up the Artificial Intelligence. At which point I uninstalled the program, and I haven't bothered going back to the Microsoft Store to download it, (again). Do I look stupid? Nobody messes with this man.