A famous concern in AI is known as the paperclip maximizer problem. AI pursues one goal and accidentally wipes us out. I revisit this matter and break the myth involved.

AI is a shiny distraction from college funding. Workload is not the issue. The issue is 16-19 year olds aren’t funded for ...

WHAT do paper clips have to do with the end of the world? More than you might think, if you ask researchers trying to make sure that artificial intelligence acts in our interests.. This goes back ...

The problem with all of these confident forecasts is that no one knows the future of AI — let alone how, or when, artificial general intelligence will emerge.

FrontierMath, a new benchmark from Epoch AI, challenges advanced AI systems with complex math problems, revealing how far AI still has to go before achieving true human-level reasoning.

Which brings us back to the paperclip problem. First popularized by philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003 , the paper-clip scenario imagines giving a superintelligent AI the task of manufacturing paper ...

The concept of Ctrl Alt Deal took root from a philosophical problem: the "paperclip problem" to be exact (the company that created you is even called Paperclip International).

AI's Shoggoth fans know that those are the table-stakes. When you're a pro, that concept is funny. Then there's beast No. 3, the mythical "Paperclip ... to strip a complex problem down to ...