DailyDirt: Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Help Us...
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Computers are getting smarter all the time. Even though science fiction sometimes tends to paint artificial intelligence in an evil light, humans are building these intelligent machines -- and presumably, we'll have some control over how dangerous they'll ultimately become (but maybe not). People are building artificial brains without really knowing how brains work, but that's how we're learning. Maybe we should be breeding hyper-intelligent parrots, instead?- Virginia Tech scientists have a mathematical model for using bacteria to function as a robot brain. Complex emergent behaviors can arise from bacteria-bots and create interesting cyborgs with capabilities that might be attributed to higher order animals. [url]
- Computerphobia doesn't seem like a common term or actual fear these days, but in the 1980s, when computers were much less familiar, it wasn't crazy to see people approach PCs with anxiety. Computers are just waiting for us to let our guard down before they attack us.... [url]
- RoboBrain is an online artificial intelligence that any robot might tap into for some cognitive help. Robots might develop more quickly if they can help each other learn via 'cloud robotics' and distributed processing/intelligence resources. Hello, Skynet! [url]
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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, bacteria, brains, cloud robotics, cognitive computing, computerphobia, cyborgs, emergent behavior, robobrain, skynet, terminators
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aND IN 1980
When electronic in your home amounted to a TUBE based TV and a Toaster...
And 1/3 of the USA wasnt even Born..
Computers of the time...Atari, Commodore, Intel, IBM, Compact, Kaypro, Apple 1
Operating systems? DOS, DOS, DOS, DOS
Loading system, TAPE DRIVES or Cartridge loading..
Cost of a HARD DRIVE?? $$MILLIONS
Smart phones and PADS are 10-100 times as much power, in your hand.
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Re: aND IN 1980
FTFY
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Re: Re: aND IN 1980
If we allow shiny new hardware to distract us from the big picture we're in trouble.
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(https://news.utexas.edu/2011/05/05/schizophrenia_discern)
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1) Program a neural network to do the computerized analog of what we think a certain brain process does under certain conditions that we think causes schizophrenia.
2) Observe that the neural network becomes schizophrenic, exactly as predicted by the model used.
3) Proclaim that this is evidence that the model is correct.
Trouble is, doing a simulation this way would produce "evidence" of any model, even an incorrect one, so I don't see how we've made any real progress here.
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1. Build a brain analog
2. Give it some inputs that we think might cause schizophrenia in humans
3. See if it exhibits schizophrenic behavior
Then the quality of the experiment would depend on how good the brain analog is, but it isn't circular reasoning. That is to say step 1 doesn't include programming in responses to the stimuli planned for step 2.
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Why worry about AI evil when we have plenty of human evil?
What's the real 'Terminator'? Us with our hands on the controls of a remote coward murder machine we call a 'drone'. Plenty of other human driven abominations of technology are on the way. That's what we must worry about and stop now. Now.
If AI is going to threaten mankind, it could possibly be any worse than the example that AI would discover in us, Homo sapiens sapiens, as we oddly call ourselves. (Sapiens = Wise. Sapiens sapiens = Wise wise).
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Computerphobia...
My grandfather was afraid of computers. When I had the C64, he liked to play golf and pinball on it, but he wouldn't touch the keyboard if his life depended on it. He also wouldn't even try playing any games on the Intellivision or Atari 5200 because the controllers had too many buttons.
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Re: Computerphobia
When guys like Aaron Schwarz end up choosing death instead of a 30 year sentence for downloading scientific papers, and Ross Ulbricht gets life in prison for running a website, it is pretty clear that it is a cultural phenomenon, complete with bigotry and lynchings.
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Ghosts in the Machine
If we perceive a demon within something we've have made, where do we think the demon came from?
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Re: Ghosts in the Machine
It'll make a better tweet anyway...
#ScratchPad
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Re: Ghosts in the Machine
There are learning computers that make choices on their own. The "programmer" no more makes the choice than a parent does when a child acts.
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