Posted on 01/27/2016 5:45:02 PM PST by mrsmith
"Google has taken a brilliant and unexpected step toward building an AI with more humanlike intuition, developing a computer capable of beating even expert human players at the fiendishly complicated board game Go... Their computer program, called AlphaGo, beat the European Go champion, Fan Hui, five games to zero... Two deep-learning networks were used in AlphaGo: one network learned to predict the next move, and the other learned to predict the outcome from different arrangements on the board. The two networks were combined using a more conventional AI algorithm to look ahead in the game for possible moves. A scientific paper written by researchers from Google that describes the work appears in the journal Nature today. "
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I really don’t want machines being able to think for themselves. The dangers involved are there for all to see.
Terminator was a fun but obviously unrealistic film when it came out.
maybe not.
Heck the adds for Watson from IBM during the AFC playoff game this past weekend were scaring the heck out of me as it was. We seem to be on the road to making ourselves obsolete. Just have to hope the AIs decide to keep us around for quaint entertainment.
AI was a popular topic back in the day. Maybe the 80s. But then it never really took off.
Now it seems to be talked about constantly again. And this time, they seem to have real accomplishments.
I’m starting to get worried. An actual AI would change things the way that the printing press changed things.
The implications for the development of so-called "Strong AI", however, now need to be taken seriously.
For those requiring treatment, robo-surgeons will again cover 90%+ of all outpatient care.
It’s obvious from our history the question that MUST be given a superior intelligence, for good and/or evil is “How to control men?”
The explanation of the AI doesn’t sound like ‘true’ intelligence. However accomplishing this feat with brute force and pattern recognition shows it is awful close.
I, for one, salute our new computer overlords
Hopefully no one builds a machine that is more intelligent than they are.
you know it will happen.
why am I thinking of the movie Terminator? . . .
It will be some kind of ego thing or gov-co program doing something extremely stupid.
While I think that sounds great, I surely hope someone is looking into how to hardwire the 3 laws of robotics into all the AIs.
I have an AI working on that now.
Go?
Is that like Othello?
And how often will the AI decide we’re way cheaper just dead?
We’ll have to entertain them all the time.
Idle input fields are the Devil’s playthings.
I wonder what the machines will think when the grid goes down.
“Poof?”
You get rationing when you’re managing scarcity. The promise of technology is things that were formerly scarce become cheap and plentiful. Medicine is not immune to that arithmetic. Will some hypochondriacs spend hours each day consulting with their robo-doc about imagined maladies? Sure. But it’ll probably be a plug in to Facebook for them so you won’t notice any difference.
No, Go is extremely more difficult.
Yahoo Answers has that question:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080112054042AAeKRgP
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