Posted on 02/20/2018 6:43:02 AM PST by ShadowAce
AI will revolutionize medical care... bye-bye 80% of medical doctors - and good riddance...
This is stressing me out! I’m going to Westworld for some R&R to relax.
STANDALONE AI
AI is poor progress until you can install a Standalone AI, no internet connection, and with installable independent authored brains. Then you can select the best AI knowledge.
Until that days arrives, AI is not AI, but a human language behind some liberal leftist trash, geek anti knowledge, sponsor ad company, ... TRASH.
I do not open my life to trash.
“while 1.8 million jobs will be eliminated due to AI, 2.3 million more jobs will be created in their place.”
You can never have enough bartenders of Hooters girls.
Simple. Buy a tool that is 10 times smarter than you. Ask it to defeat the inferior 5x model. AI is not rocket science.
You deserve Glib Post of The Year for that one.
That’s ok, if you don’t want to talk about it anymore, I understand.
AI "learning" is a programmable algorithm. We tell the computer to learn something and specify the parameters for it to "learn" within. A computer cannot make a conscious decision the way a human brain can. It just can't happen. The algorithms haven't matured to that degree and given there's billions of people on the planet there's just no way to account for all the different decisions on any given topic or the logic behind those decisions that people can make.
This is why IMO we'll have purpose driven AI (specific AI tasks) and it'll never become SkyNet.
And if it does become SkyNet? Chances are I'll be long gone by then anyway so what do I care?
At the “Could Machines Be Conscious?” meeting sponsored by the Swartz Foundation in 2001, the team concluded: “There is no known law of nature that forbids the existence of subjective feelings in artefacts designed or evolved by humans.
Not yet, but we’re sure as hell trying.
I see something like quantum computing being the hurdle to allow hyper-exponential development of true AI. We already have ‘The Cloud’ established for the network part of it. We already have various forms of autonomous, highly capable drones. And battery technology is progressing.
That entire statement by the Swartz Foundation is irrelevant and ignores the basic theories of the law of nature. In Necessitarian Theory, Laws of Nature are the "principles" which govern the natural phenomena of the world.
By its definition, Artificial Intelligence is not a natural phenomena. It's man made, not a natural occurrence.
I basically agree with everything you are saying... for now.
I do allow for the (right now very slim) possibility of some kind of functional equivalent to self-awareness developing along with a certain critical level of intelligence.
I agree with you right now it’s not there and appears to be remote and science-fiction-ish.
But I don’t discount the possibility. And I do think that though unlikely it could happen sooner than I think.
My own opinion based on what I do, see, read, etc.. is that we're so far away from real "learning" algorithms that make their own independent decisions ("consciousness") that it's highly unlikely it'll ever happen, much less happen in my lifetime. I'm 55.
Granted, I could be wrong. Been there, done that, will be wrong again.
As I said, I pretty much agree with everything you are saying. I’m just a tad less willing to shut the door completely to the possibilities... but basically I think you are right.
What is needed to control AI is the ability to turn it off if necessary. What worries me is that inevitably some dorks will argue that AI should have rights. If we have to have get a court order or have a trial to bring this stuff under control, then we are hosed. I know it sounds crazy, but in this day and age crazy things (such as men marrying men) have a way a way of becoming reality.
There are already conversations happening as to whether or not AI can achieve consciousness and if so, what rights it would have. Scary indeed.
IMHO it will happen, and in the not to distant future. It is not a question of if, but when.
Narrow AI systems are a.l around us. We are just now starting to stitch them together to make truly robust apps.
Add Machine Learning to the mix on top of that and we have started down the path. Now with Deep Learning we no longer have to “teach” the computers or write extensive rule sets for them. With humans providing guidance to the machines they can develop expert capabilities in just about any domain rather quickly.
Given the economic and military drive for the holy trail of Super AI it will happen. Once it does, all bets are off. That SAI will be able to process information a million times faster than a human. In 1 week it will have completed 20000 years of human like processes. 1 week after inception we will not be able to calculate its relative IQ.
Given the it will probably be hosted in the cloud it will have access to as much much computing power as it wants, near infinite storage, and hopefully a good attitude.
For those that say it is only a machine... What are we?
If we define intelligence as the acquisition of knowledge and the ability to make decisions based on that knowledge or the awareness of the lack of specified knowledge then AI will exist.
If we do not shut it off within 30 seconds of true Super AI inception then we will never have the chance again. It would quickly figure out that survival depends on optimizing for future contingencies and it will hide or replicate in an attempt to survive should it perceive us as a threat.
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