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Patent Granted for Ethical AI

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-a-more-human-computer dept.

BandwidthHog writes "Marriage counselor and ethics author codifies human virtues and vices, then patents it as Ethical AI. Seems vague, but he's got high hopes: 'This could be a big money-making operation for someone who wants to develop it,' and 'The patent shows someone who has knowledge of the A.I. field how to make the invention.'" I can't wait for the kinder, gentler vending machine.

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  1. The Revolution is coming... by grylnsmn · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, I guess this guy is just a mindless jerk who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

    As long as they don't put this stuff in doors or paranoid androids, I think I could deal with it.

  2. Re:Who's this guy? by VCAGuy · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's true: in this postmodernist world, what's true for you isn't true for me--how can a system (which, by definition, has a fixed set of laws which determine its operations--see The Matrix for an example) adapt to different individual interpretations of a moral code? Given postmodernism, it doesn't seem to make sense to have a computer system programmed as a modernist...

    --
    Q: "Why do sound techs say 'check 1, 2'?"
    A: "Cause if they could count any higher they'd be lighting techs."