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Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction (gizmodo.com)

submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is just based on a survey of researchers (not even AI researchers specifically) where they were asked if they think it'll happen or not and they gave anything from vague predictions to complete gut-feeling guesses back.

It's a worthless article. Not that I even needed to click to find that out.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

83% of statisticians polled say you cannot predict future events from the statistical results of an opinion poll, which means you can still make those predictions 17% of the time. Maybe this is one of that 17%?

[–] hoot@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

67% of statistics are made up

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?

McGarry: Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count.