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Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com)
Taco Cowboy writes: It may be brilliant, but it's not all that trustworthy. That appears to be the opinion Americans hold when it comes to Artificial Intelligence systems... And while we may be interacting with AI systems more frequently than we realize (hi, Siri), a new study from Time etc suggests that Americans don't believe the AI revolution is quite here yet, with 54 percent claiming to have never interacted with such a system
The more interesting finding reveals that 26 percent of respondents said they would not trust an AI with any personal or professional task. Sure, sending a text message or making a phone call is fine, but 51 percent said they'd be uncomfortable sharing personal data with an AI system. Moreover, 23 percent of Americans who say they have interacted with an AI reported being dissatisfied with the experience.
I thought it was interesting that 66% of the respondents said they'd be uncomfortable sharing financial data with an AI, while 53% said they'd be uncomfortable sharing professional data.
The more interesting finding reveals that 26 percent of respondents said they would not trust an AI with any personal or professional task. Sure, sending a text message or making a phone call is fine, but 51 percent said they'd be uncomfortable sharing personal data with an AI system. Moreover, 23 percent of Americans who say they have interacted with an AI reported being dissatisfied with the experience.
I thought it was interesting that 66% of the respondents said they'd be uncomfortable sharing financial data with an AI, while 53% said they'd be uncomfortable sharing professional data.
Nearly every single movie featuring an AI has shown it eventually trying to destroy/enslave humanity. So we've had it programmed into our heads from when we were kids to distrust AIs. Even if the movies have little to no grounding in reality, seeing ways things can go wrong depicted can be pretty powerful on our overal psyche.
I love how every new cool thing HAS to live offsite in some cloud, i.e. in completely opaque manner by an increasingly remote corporation, that far more often than not views its cool thing as nothing more than yet another vector to collect data about its users and market that data to advertisers and aggregators, since that's becoming more profitable than selling cool things. We're becoming surrounded by untrustworthy devices and platforms funneling away all the data they can. Nobody really cares about knowing what sort of cat pictures we prefer, but the power and control possible by proper analysis of all of this data, even in aggregate, is becoming somewhat alarming. AI may have cool potential (I study it myself), but I'm worried about the modern application and misuse of tools facilitating deeper interactions and the analysis thereof... No major modern corporation (or government) has demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in any traditional sense, and many border on psychopathic...
"The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
Have gnu, will travel.
It's not the AI that I don't trust, it's the companies with access to the data that worry me.
AI is a tool, just like a spreadsheet program. AI's by themselves aren't really the problem, who owns them and programs them are the problem. Corporations, whom some have shown a total greedy need for profit, even if it means breaking the law, will most likely be one of the major players in the AI industry. Governments are going to be another major player. History and news reports shows you how trustful governments are.
AI isn't going to be bad in itself, but it's owners, well, ya, we are fucked.
Be seeing you...
I think we should consider it in terms of the brain.
The Thalamus, Hippocampus, Amygdala, Striatum, Auditory Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Corpus Callosu, Reticular Nucleus, Intralaminar nuclei, Basal Ganglia are not intelligence.
Siri essentially is several parts of the of the brain (auditory cortext, parts of broca's area, etc.).
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When discussing A.I. people seem to have two standards.
When something is impossible, they say that's A.I.
As soon as we succeed at implementing that behavior, they say that's not A.I.
i.e.
http://www.techinsider.io/misc...
"In the early years of AI, there had always been this worry that AI never lived up to its promise because anything that works, by definition, is no longer [seen as] AI," Subbarao Kambhapati, a computer scientist at Arizona State University, told Tech Insider.
Carlos Guestrin, the CEO of a Seattle-based company called Dato that builds AI algorithms to analyze data, said it might be because ANI looks nothing like human intelligence.
"Once something is done, it's not AI anymore," Guestrin told Tech Insider. "It's a perceptual thing â" once something becomes commonplace, it's demystified, and it doesn't feel like the magical intelligence that we see in humans."
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If by A.I. we mean consciousness, then the instant we succeed we are
a) in danger
b) behaving immorally if we kill it, force it to do labor for us.
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We don't need "A.I." to replace humans doing manual labor, white collar work, and even many creative and analytical jobs. The ability to appreciate music doesn't pay money. The ability to create music has been implemented. Most "creative" jobs can probably be reduced 4:1 to 20:1 with one person being in creative mode all the time while robots and programs do the rest. I suspect we'll see jobs destroyed faster than they can be created for the next 20 to 40 years.
by then we hit the limits to growth based on non renewable elements (like chromium, magnesium, etc.)
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
That most americans are dumb as a box of rocks...
Honestly my fellow citizens are pretty fucking stupid. I personally embrace the AI and use it to my advantage. Let the drooling masses cower in fear of the new Witches.
Hell many of us that can create things with electronics, software and 3d printers are already considered magicians of dark arts by most of our Fellow Americans
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI
AI = Actual Intelligence
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