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Robotics => Robotics News => Topic started by: Tyler on January 12, 2009, 11:00:04 pm
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AI: Kurzweilian Utopia or Meatbags be Damned?
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging
Technologies has published an essay on AI by Michael Anissimov
titled, "Inevitable
Positive Outcome with AI?" Michael tackles what he believes are
common misconceptions about AI including the idea of a Kurzweilian
Utopian in which "human beings will magically fuse with AI the instant
it is created" and those who believe the "challenge of
programming it for benevolence or moral common sense is trivial or
already solved." He proposes specific reasons why these positions are in
error having to do with the way in which AI is being created. He warns
that it's just as likely AI could result in a monomaniacal day trading
machine "thinking so far outside the box that it decides to take control
of the entire stock exchange, or even the world economy, and manipulate
it precisely to maximize its personal utility, meatbags be damned." We
posted about a similar essay by Michael on the dangers of AI in 2007.
http://robots.net/article/2729.html
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Don't worry Tyler, I'm not gonna 'fuse' with you.
Personally, I would like to see in a Utopia a side by side system of human beings and machines.
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Aside from playing a game of chess, I'd really like to have a conversation
with a computer. Make that a realistic, topical, engaging and entertaining
conversation with a computer for more than 5 minutes!
;)
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I would say we are fast approaching HAL 9000 like computers, when it comes to communication at least.
Think about it; speech recognition, for an individual user, is no problem, speech synthasis sounds almost natural, and semantic systems mean an even greater degree of understanding.
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Sorry Dante...I'm afraid I can't do that!.... ;D