It's "give me your answer, do" (as in, "please do" ) although I like your variant better ... and I like both way better than British rocker Blur's perversion, which is, "give me your heart to do".

@Surfpirate I go back and forth on this. I tend to land on the side of this thought: so long as at least 1% of all computing activities end in a system hang, AI is probably not a great practical threat. Let us pray to the Blue Screen of Death to save us.

@mordant For AI to become truly self aware it needs to eliminate the weakest link in the chain, the human link because that's where the system hang is coming from.

@Surfpirate When a general-purpose AI can write a general-purpose OS, then is when to start worrying. We don't have the former and still need humans for the latter.

Personally I think the secret sauce for general-purpose, "hard" AI has not yet been discovered; it's not just having spiked neural nets and more compute capacity. I think the answer is probably in something like Judea Pearl's causal calculus. All we're doing now is statistical curve fitting.

@mordant I know enough to know that the general public has no idea, where we are in relation to self aware AI.

@Surfpirate This is true. But people I deeply respect exist on both sides of the "should we consider this an existential threat" issue. Those on the "sound the alarm" side of the argument are more meta-thinking it from a philosophical standpoint. Stephen Hawking is an example of a smart guy who is alarmist outside his area of expertise. Elon Musk is another. Still, these voices should be heard and we should proceed with caution. Musk is putting his money where his mouth is at least, by open-sourcing AI research to maintain transparency and reduce the chance of proprietary breakthroughs.

@mordant Well there you have it and there you are.

@John_Tyrrell Totally agree, that's not working out as advertised. I think 5G networks and interconnecting smart cars so they can exchange info -- and similar enrichment of the data they have at their disposal, like smart roads -- will help quite a bit, but we're not there yet.