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Artificial Intelligence Has 'Great Potential, But We Need To Steer Carefully,' LinkedIn Co-founder Says (cnbc.com)
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman joined other tech moguls in voicing concern about artificial intelligence on Wednesday. From a report: "It has great potential, but we need to steer carefully," Hoffman said on Halftime Report. Hoffman stressed corporate transparency when asked what happens if companies use AI to attack nation-states. The possibility of manipulating how people consume information remains an unanswered question. During last year's U.S. presidential election, Facebook advertisements linked to Russia mainly focused on the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, and Hoffman says information battles are "in the very early days." AI must be improved, Hoffman says, to "[hold] corporations accountable" when nation-states are using the technology to attack. "Corporations normally deal with other corporations, not with governments," Hoffman said. The "ultimate" solution, he says, is "having more kinds of functions and features within AI that show abhorrent patterns." That way patterns raise a red flag for humans to investigate, Hoffman noted.
>> Facebook advertisements linked to Russia mainly focused on the states of Michigan and Wisconsin
It was "specifically" (as in "some") rather than "mainly" according to TFA:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html?sr=twCNN100317russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin0933PMStory
Wasn't most political advertising aimed at the battleground states? Did those Facebook ads somehow keep someone from campaigning there?
Heresy!
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
linked-in still sucks a lot of ass
AI is just a bigger form of automation.
There was animal powered automation. Then steam powered automation. Then electrical grid powered automation. Still, they couldn't replace jobs requiring intelligence, such as rating someone's credit worthiness. AI is simply the next step of automation replacing workers.
There was this coal miner. The coal mine shut down.
So he retrained and became an assembly line worker. But the auto plant replaced him with robots.
So he became a truck driver, because those trucks aren't going to drive themselves.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Who the FUCK gives a shit what this skeezeball thinks?
He created a spam network that's so useless and dead that it was the subject of a joke on the Simpsons a couple of years back. Whooptydoo!