"When I say that you can change the world with relatively little intelligence: Humans have already done much of the hard work for the AIs. ...[I]f you drop an AI in the middle of the African and tell it, "Take over the world!" It can't. ...But, if first you have these apes who build all these bureaucratic systems, like the , and then... drop the AI into the existing financial system.., that's... much easier. ...You don't need motor skills. You don't need even to understand the world. ...The financial system is the ideal playground for AI. It's... purely informational."
January 1, 1970
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