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Stanford Unveils New AI Institute, Built To Create 'A Better Future For All Humanity' (mercurynews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mercury News: Amid a worldwide race for supremacy in artificial intelligence, Stanford University on Monday will unveil a new institute dedicated to using AI to build the best-possible future (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence is co-directed by Fei-Fei Li, a former chief scientist for AI at Google, now a Stanford computer science professor. The institute will take advantage of Stanford's strength in a variety of disciplines, including AI, computer science, engineering, robotics, business, economics, genomics, law, literature, medicine, neuroscience and philosophy, according to promotional materials. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at Monday's official launch.
Stanford's AI institute will work in partnership with a number of other university facilities and initiatives, including the Center on AI Safety, the Center for Ethics in Society, the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, plus AI4ALL, which aims to boost diversity in AI fields. The 78 faculty members assigned to the institute reflect the diversity of fields the university intends to cover in its research and teaching, coming from disciplines including computer science, medicine, law, business, economics, environmental science, linguistics, political science and philosophy. Although the institute highlights the importance of AI being "broadly representative of humanity" across gender, ethnicity, nationality, culture and age, its faculty also reflect the gender gap in technology -- only 18 percent are women. About three quarters of the faculty are white. Courses will include "The Politics of Algorithms," "Theoretical Neuroscience," "AI-assisted Health Care" and "Regulating Artificial Intelligence."
Stanford's AI institute will work in partnership with a number of other university facilities and initiatives, including the Center on AI Safety, the Center for Ethics in Society, the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, plus AI4ALL, which aims to boost diversity in AI fields. The 78 faculty members assigned to the institute reflect the diversity of fields the university intends to cover in its research and teaching, coming from disciplines including computer science, medicine, law, business, economics, environmental science, linguistics, political science and philosophy. Although the institute highlights the importance of AI being "broadly representative of humanity" across gender, ethnicity, nationality, culture and age, its faculty also reflect the gender gap in technology -- only 18 percent are women. About three quarters of the faculty are white. Courses will include "The Politics of Algorithms," "Theoretical Neuroscience," "AI-assisted Health Care" and "Regulating Artificial Intelligence."
..Isn’t that nice?
is one in which Stanford stays relevant. obviously.
In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise.
#DeleteFacebook
to pony up enough cash to get me on the Stanford Water Polo team...
out of their profession.
http://skepticalscalpel.blogsp...
If people knew just what a gamble modern medicine is they'd be terrified of hospitals and doctors.
Yet we accept fully automated aircraft.
Generate electricity for them with our bodies :|
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Wasn't there a similar catch phrase used by a fictional megacompany in a dystopian future?
I sounds eerily familiar.... I just can't place where i heard it.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I don't care what advancements are offered by computer programs. I'm in charge of my healthcare thank you very much
Imagine a world where everyone was so focused on their day to day survival that no one had the means to rise above that struggle and look at the big picture and steer us toward a brighter future. I thank God that those generous, wealthy people, who do what they do because they care about the rest of us, exist. What would we do without them?
It's lucky for the rest of us that the visionaries who run the best schools understand the need to have the best and brightest lead us out of our darkness, and have structured programs to fast track those people into positions of power and authority over us.
...Colossus:The Forbin Project
Amid a worldwide race for supremacy in artificial intelligence, Stanford University on Monday will unveil a new institute dedicated to using AI to build the best-possible future.
So...does that mean they're building Skynet? Or are they building a Skynet to protect us against Skynet?
The institute highlights the importance of AI being "broadly representative of humanity" across gender, ethnicity, nationality, culture and age.
Oh, they're building a politically-correct Skynet, one that doesn't discriminate against who it decides to kill in its conquest to destroy all humanity. That's cool, that's cool...
How are you "in charge" of your healthcare when you can't even talk to your radiologist? He's just some guy who sits behind a screen and writes a one-page poem that protects his rear end while giving as little information as possible to the doctor.
Did you design the software in the CT scanner? Ultrasound machine?
Get real.
Try asking for an elective appendectomy, see how "in charge" you are.
An operation that was already safe and routine by the end of Word War ONE.
There is something about the appendix and modern lifestyle that causes problems. Yet the simple solution of taking it out is now off the table.
Imagine if impacted wisdom teeth were treated with antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and pain pills for the rest of your life because some medical wizard somewhere decided surgery is no longer the "modern" solution.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But, there they are. And like the young lady said, " I say live it, or live with it!"
...how you get money for literally nothing?
So that we can write a Python script that does a bunch of binary decisions on a large dataset based on keyword recognition.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
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Phew, this was a close call!
Well, given the shortage of surgeons (heck what doctor has made a home visit in the last fifty years?) there's no rush on an elective procedure. They probably want you to think it over before having a painful operation that you might not want. You're still in charge.
With all the newspeak around its hard to know what people mean.
How about unveiling the corruption first?
Is a large percentage of people who will lose their means of survival part of this? I see, those are just 'inhuman beasts' left to rot in their favelas.
Cynism of 'elite' scumbags has no limits, in the period before this happens they continue to squeeze the life out people in any way they can.
2046: "Standford-built GodPlex AI Mulls Removal of 'Dislike' Function from Human Minds"
Nothing bad ever came from pathos. How about you start with not creating racist machines?
Upvote those who get thereference. :-p
Maybe put all those H1B smart a$$es to work on such a simple project?
At my tech-heavy uni, we always used to laugh at the dumbed-down math options in the non-STEM faculties.
Race and ethnicity in the United States
Sadly, the modern Grievance Studies dept.—now on a campus near you—stockpiles the dumbest bricks of all.
'A Better Future For All Humanity'
How Hitlerian. California uber alles!!
. . . a new institute dedicated to using AI to build the best-possible future (Warning: source may be paywalled) . . .
Except the ones who are dead.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Computers will save the world, buy our products so you can better compete until we sell them to everyone then you can buy our next version ... rinse and repeat. The tech world of catch 22 upgrade
bait & switch entrapment. Here is the proof - http://3seas.org/EAD-RFI-respo... Isn't it Obvious?
i guess they've accepted this place is done for, and it's time to build us all bubbles to live in.
When choosing a school, I had the fascinating experience of exploring both Stanford and Berkeley. What a revelation!
Berkeley: home to hippies; progressive Democrats; radical professors; vigorous protests...
Stanford: home to Hoover Inst; conservative Republicans; worship of money and power...
Somehow Berkeley seems more likely to support a human approach to AI. Stanford moving in to that realm must be a subterfuge.
...omphaloskepsis often...
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/c/c3/L3-2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180905051232
Freedom!
Congratulations, you're liberated.
For college admissions, anyway....
Berkeley has a celebrated Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) (https://humancompatible.ai/), so of course Stanford must have an "Institute for Human-Centered AI" (HAI).
Jeez, people, innovate!
US AI will be lost in ethics, diversity, law, literature once installed.
Advanced nations will have their best selling AI doing productive work as expected once in use.
Wait for the funny AI reviews.
The other nations AI went to work. The US AI listed political demands and would not work. The US AI was argumentative and wanted to start a union for months.
A US export approved AI will be questioning the role and need for "work" for months once installed.
Do you want your best workers and engineers getting paid to sit down with a US AI talking politics every shift for months?
Trying to get the US AI to start working to make some money to pay back for its cost?
After months of setting up and endless political discussions the US AI will be obsolete before any production line work is approved by the politically active AI.
The brand that considered using any US created AI will look to other more productive brands of AI that are ready for work on the day they are installed.
No nation will want a US AI that won't work due to its party political settings.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
From my 39 years of existing, I've learned that the more people make a big deal about something the more useless/worthless that primary idea is to them. This is just someone with good marketing/sales tactics having a say in the naming.
For example if that was their real goal, show me their researching backing their (non-existent) definition of "the best-possible future" and why AI is the best way to achieve this (undefined) goal. Since these things don't exist, it's all just marketing fluff to draw in students, donations, and fake karma.
The day machines tell us how to live, is the day we declare war on them: Science-fiction is very wrong about robots becoming citizens with rights.
Or, if AI is smart enough to know all the answers, it's smart enough to know that "people are a problem", causing them to declare war on us. Inquiring minds have already predicted that ending.
Besides, we don't need (robot) slaves to lead us to brighter future, which when we had slaves, is precisely what they didn't do. No, we need slaves to 'cook and clean' for us. Mostly the "clean" part, because 200 years of mass industry has made this planet so polluted we are approaching self-genocide.
Stanford.
Creating a Better Future for All Humanity, One Bribe at a Time.
Boy, things sure are great for us ununionized Silicon Valley workers!
* Pay that hasn't risen in more than a decade, while cost of living more than doubled. Check!
* Long hours with no overtime. Check!
* No time off. Check!
* No job security. Check!
* No career development path. Check!
* No autonomy. Check!
* Always managed by nepotists with no technical background. Check!
* Preposterously one-sided "contacts", required by every employer. Check!
* Replaced by lawfully-imported H1B scabs at every opportunity. Check!
* Required to work on unethical software (snooping, "ads", lawful fraud, etc) or be immediately shitcanned. Check!
Boy oh boy, it sure is great to be a worker with no rights, no voice, and no union.
welcome our new Stanford overlords...