Comment Re:Funny, that spin... (Score 1) 421
In your strident efforts to impugn AI researchers' motivations as being tainted by the desire for money - has it ever occurred to you that successful development of strong AI threatens existing vested interests far more?
If researchers actually manage to create a superintelligent AI, it would likely put them out of a job - along with physicists like Hawking, managers like Gates, and engineers like Musk - by being far more able to access, process and reach insightful conclusions on pretty much any large dataset, including most research and management fields. Those who controlled (or partnered with) such an intelligence would have a brief but dramatic advantage over their competitors, until ubiquitous strong AIs took the lead to further their own goals instead (which would most probably be orthogonal to our own, having little overlap to compete over).