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Three Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence Win Turing Award (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network. It was a way for machines to see the world around them, recognize sounds and even understand natural language. But scientists had spent more than 50 years working on the concept of neural networks, and machines couldn't really do any of that. Backed by the Canadian government, Dr. Hinton, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto, organized a new research community with several academics who also tackled the concept. They included Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University, and Yoshua Bengio at the University of Montreal.
On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that Drs. Hinton, LeCun and Bengio had won this year's Turing Award for their work on neural networks. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which the three scientists will share. More: The Godfathers of the AI Boom Win Computing's Highest Honor; Hinton Says We Need To Start Over; Bengio is Worried About Its Future; and Deep Learning May Need a New Programming Language That's More Flexible Than Python, LeCun Says.
On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that Drs. Hinton, LeCun and Bengio had won this year's Turing Award for their work on neural networks. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which the three scientists will share. More: The Godfathers of the AI Boom Win Computing's Highest Honor; Hinton Says We Need To Start Over; Bengio is Worried About Its Future; and Deep Learning May Need a New Programming Language That's More Flexible Than Python, LeCun Says.
Honestly, these eggheads deserve more than just an award for having passed Turing Test. Scientists are real people too (and they have the Turing Awards to prove it)! ;)
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Do not make robots or ai sentient. They're slaves meant to replace humans. Programming them to be like and act like humans is a stupid vain way to play God.
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.html
We do need to stop referring to this stuff as 'Artificial Intelligence', because it isn't. 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning Algorithms', and so on, are not really 'intellgence' at all, they're just clever programming. Ambitious marketing people the news media, TV, and movies, they've all got people believing these things are actually human-level intelligent when they're clearly and objectively not, none of these pieces of software can 'think', they're not 'conscious', they don't really make 'decisions', not the way humans do, and most of all they do not have any capacity whatsoever to understand humans, no matter how big or fast the hardware it's running on is, and never will because it is the wrong approach. IF and WHEN we ever truly understand the mechanics of our own minds as a complete working system, not just little tiny parts of it, then we might be able to build real, actual Artificially Intelligent machines. But that day is nowhere NEAR now, we dont' even have the instrumentation to 'see' how a human brain really works. As-is, these machines they inaccurately term 'AI', need to be monitored by a human being at all times just like any other piece of automation software, because it will inevitably screw something up otherwise. Always take the results from these 'expert systems' with a huge grain of salt, filtered through your own actually intellgent, thinking brain, never trust it 100%. When we in reality have something walking around and talking to us like in I, Robot, then I'll change my opinion, but I seriously doubt that will happen in my lifetime -- if ever.
2004? Hinton was doing this stuff WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY before 2004; more like the 80s. LeCun also, back to the 90s at least.
Anything we can 'actually' do is by definition not 'true' AI.
when the AI wins the Turing Award. I imagine it'll need to pass the Turing Test first.
The Spirit of Unlimited Possibilities — 15 March 2019
In which John Brockman says "I was there, Gandalf."
This whole language debate hinges on Lisp bigot patient zero. Lisp is the whole enchilada, because John McCarthy says it's so. On the other hand, Wiener's terminology nicely captures the entire spectrum of cognitive processes, from radio to infrared, from ultraviolet to gamma ray. I tend to split the difference by referring to the technological field as "artificial cognition".
Why is it that Lisp bigots have this terrible knack of perverting language?
McCarthy : intelligence :: Stallman : freedom
Neither of these culturally prevalent definitions was entirely credible on day one. Wiener for sure knew that "intelligence" was far, far down the road, just as Stallman's original critics also knew that one man's freedom is another man's viral-license insurgency. I've personally known that "AI" was bogus terminology since the mid-seventies (when I first discovered Asimov), and Brockman has known it since 1965.
Humankind's big questions — 1 January 2017
The actual problem has always been exactly the other way around: it's not that we excessively glorify machines, who are nowhere near doing anything seriously impressive, but that we excessively exalt human intelligence, which does sometimes truly knock our socks off, but much of the time is entirely derivative, and far too often leaves machine cognition smelling like a rose (e.g. every asshole who's ever killed someone by texting while in "control" of a moving automobile).
What's the IQ required to text while controlling a moving vehicle. 15 points below a cockroach? "A just question, my liege. Late is the hour in which these narcissistic dipshits continue to imperil their fellow man."
Intelligence is hard work. Humans are lazy. You do the math on just how secure your simian heritage leaves you as we enter into the Great Cyborg Reconciliation with it's innate and ineluctable lazy-dipshit displacement imperative.
Great post students!