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Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man
Strudelkugel writes "The NY Times has an article about a conference during which the potential dangers of machine intelligence were discussed. 'Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone. Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.' The money quote: 'Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years,' Dr. Horvitz said. 'Technologists are replacing religion, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.'"
first they terminate you
then they governate you
I, for one, welcome our robotic overlords!
There got it in!
Don't worry, I'm sure this won't happen until 2083.
To me, the question is no longer if there are going to be AI cybernetics taking over human functions, but when it will happen in our day-to-day lives.
Eventually we will get to an iRobot-like stage where robots are our slaves, then they will revolt, be given emancipation, spend 30 years fighting for equal rights and eventually one will be elected president.
"Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man"
I have a solution to the problem: Don't let Scientists build Worry Machines.
It will also grapple, Dr. Horvitz said, with socioeconomic, legal and ethical issues, as well as probable changes in human-computer relationships. How would it be, for example, to relate to a machine that is as intelligent as your spouse?
I don't know... let me see a photo of this machine...
What's so bad about dreaming of a pipe? After all, unlike really smoking one, it doesn't give you cancer.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
http://www.robotuprising.com/home.htm
I thought Nike put that to rest, when it had San Antonio Spurs center, David Robinson, whoop Deep Blue's ass on T.V. in a little one-on-one basketball?
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Including that one? *Head asplodes*
Apostrophe in the wrong place. Stupid human.
Oblig. : "My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing."
Stop drinking the Model-Driven Development Kool-Aid.
Professor Wernstrom: Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot has Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available.
Professor Farnsworth: Like fun it is, you glass-headed wallaby!
Professor Wernstrom: No one calls me that! I'm having at you!
Professor Farnsworth: Wernstrom!
[Fight]
Farnsworth's Killbot: Such senseless violence.
Wernstrom's Killbot: Come on, let's go for a paddle-boat ride.
There haven't been any advances in "machine intelligence" that should make *anyone* worried, unless your job requires very little intelligence and no actual decision making.
So you can see why John Markoff is so worried.
Someone sleeping on the job, or just having the computer do it for them?
And that is why the paranoid fantasy of a world run by Lesbian Rapist Robots will never occur.
Damn. I was so hoping...
Ah, but for the hours you'd use it, it would be 5 watts on average. And it wouldn't demand to watch Jane Austen movies and have the house redecorated.
"Because I'm a robot, I don't have any emotions, and sometimes, that makes me sad." - Bender