Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization
&quot;I have the impression that it might not take a lot to fix what’s missing.&quot;<p>The history of the field is full of people saying this, and then eventually realizing that it does indeed take a lot to fix what&#x27;s missing. Right now I think we have stumbled on a novel and interesting result, which is that if you statistically collate all of the text in the world then a computer can also generate text that encodes many of the statistical relations present in that text. But I have yet to hear a plausible argument for how this translates to intelligence except that people have an impression that it&#x27;s &quot;close&quot;, never mind that we don&#x27;t have any stable definition for what it&#x27;s close to.