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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat—Yet
The Wall Street Journal ^
| Dec. 11, 2014
| Gary Marcus
Posted on 12/18/2014 2:38:44 PM PST by presidio9
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen Hawking, Dec. 2
Does artificial intelligence threaten our species, as the cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently suggested? Is the development of AI like summoning the demon, as tech pioneer Elon Musk told an audience at MIT in October? Will smart machines supersede or even annihilate humankind?
As a cognitive scientist and founder of a new startup that focuses on machine learning, I think about these questions nearly every day.
But lets not panic. Superintelligent machines wont be arriving soon. Computers today are good at narrow tasks carefully engineered by programmers, like balancing checkbooks and landing airplanes, but after five decades of research, they are still weak at anything that looks remotely like genuine human intelligence.
-SNIP-
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: goodmorningdave; hailalienoverlords; judgementday; skynet
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:38:45 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:39:41 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: presidio9
Artificial Intelligence Isnt a ThreatYet However, natural stupidity is a threat...
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:42:29 PM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: presidio9
I don’t expect it to be a threat.
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:44:25 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: presidio9
Carbon-based organic creatures......ignore this story. These are tanning bed pods. Climb into one. The sharp thing being inserted into the back of your head is a new form of headphones.
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:49:11 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: presidio9
Artificial Intelligence Isnt a ThreatYetWe do well enough with realistic stupidity.
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:49:38 PM PST
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: presidio9
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:50:13 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Star Traveler
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:50:29 PM PST
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: kosciusko51
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:50:42 PM PST
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: kosciusko51
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posted on
12/18/2014 2:51:31 PM PST
by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: presidio9
We used to measure computers against each other. Now we measure computers against humans. In the future, computers will measure themselves against each other — humans will be irrelevant.
To: presidio9
Just wait til they come up with real intelligence.
To: Born to Conserve
We used to measure computers against each other. Now we measure computers against humans. In the future, computers will measure themselves against each other humans will be irrelevant. The North Korea story makes me think that we are not far from a time when nations will use limited AI to hack their enemies more quickly and more efficiently.
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posted on
12/18/2014 3:13:07 PM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: presidio9
I’m not worried about artificial intelligence- I’m worried about all natural stupidity.
CC
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posted on
12/18/2014 3:20:34 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
To: presidio9; Norm Lenhart
When machines notice that most humans are stupid and a lot of us are insane things will get interesting.
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posted on
12/18/2014 3:45:04 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
To: presidio9
AI will come someday, but is likely decades away. Problem is, computers are still built that think like they did fifty years ago, in ones and zeros. In other words, binary digital computing. We need analog computing. Ironic, since computers started out as analog computers long ago. With 3D printing of cellular structures, we may see attempts at printing biologic material that mimics the brain and computes as analog. It's a lot tougher for humans to program in more than binary fashion. But it will happen. Original memory cores were donut shaped toroids with sensor wires passing through them. They sensed the voltage spike of multiple wires having current. At a certain voltage that signaled a "one" while below that voltage was considered a "zero". However, various voltages could signal multiple values but the programming was difficult for anyone to master. That's why binary computing took hold and is the norm.
With smarter programmers and biologic materials we may see AI equivalent to human brainpower in a couple decades or more.
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posted on
12/18/2014 5:22:06 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: presidio9
AI will be a threat... to liberals, since machines will be SMARTER THAN libs.
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posted on
12/18/2014 8:53:46 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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