Google founder Sergey Brin promises to protect humanity from AI Google co-founder Sergey Brin has used his annual founder’s letter to raise the issue of ethics in AI. Brin’s note to investors says “The new spring in artificial intelligence is the most significant development in computing in my lifetime”. He then gushed a bit about the stuff AI can do, declaring “we are truly in a …
"Between Facebook, Google and Amazon – and arguably Apple, but they seem to care about privacy – they have more information about you than you can remember, There's a lot of risk in concentration of power. So if AGI represents an extreme level of power, should that be controlled by a few people at Google with no oversight?" - Elon Musk
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/elon-musk-inventors-plans-for-outer-space-cars-finding-love-w511747
While it is too early to declare the strategy a success, I am cautiously optimistic
"Our long-term objectives for Total Planetary Domination are now well in-hand and proceeding according to plan. While it is too early to declare the strategy a success, I am cautiously optimistic."
What to deploy in order to protect the world.
Artificial Intelligence Avoidance: what you do to avoid the unintelligent deployment of AI.
Claytons Intelligence: the AI you have when you don't have intelligence.
Artificial Claytons: not good enough for the discerning individual
I am becoming numb to the usage of Artificial, Intelligence
I feel that soon Captcha will only allow me to pass if I am a robot.
we’re now building machines so they can build better machines while hoping that companies built on encouraging us to trade privacy for utility stay on the side of humanity.
I wish these global mega corps would give me the choice to retain my privacy and give up some of the utility.
Right now the best way to protect us all from AI is to calm the hypecycle. The amount of overblown nonsense masquerading as thought leadership regarding AI is appalling.
What about measures of fairness?
What about definitions of fairness?
Unless we can agree what fair is then measuring against some arbitrary definition of it is meaningless.
What "Machine Learning". There are too many humans screwing up in too many upper level positions, who didn't learn anything in school accept enough lingo to make themselves appear to know what they are doing. The Self Driving Car thing thus far, has failed. IBM's Watson is a joke that has NEVER done what they claim it does. Siri and Google Assistant are the closest thing to AI that these clowns have produced, and THEY fail at least half the time. AI isn't the concern. Human screw ups in management positions, are the problem...
So true.
We do not have AI at this point in time. I grow tired of repeating that, but I will endure.
You want to know what AI is today ? Check out Google's own learning course.
You have statistical mathematics galore, but nowhere do you have Artificial Intelligence.
Nowhere is there a silicon mind ready to learn. There's just electronic transistors with calculation rules, and you make up the rules.
That is not AI.
Not by a long shot.
It is, however, largely enough to enslave us all in a world of targeted adverts every minute of the day..
This.
Machine learning, artificial intelligence are all the latest IT gravy train buzzwords, used in marketing materials and CIO in-flight magazines designed to make them feel behind the curve and get their wallets out. When the only intelligence they should be concentrating on, is the people in their organisation.
We do not have AI at this point in time. I grow tired of repeating that, but I will endure.
Sigh. You and a million other Quixotes, tilting at windmills.
It's a term of art. You might as well complain that cars rarely rock on their rocker panels.
This "AI isn't intelligence" screed (particularly when it's not accompanied by even the shadow of an interesting, informed argument regarding the definition of "intelligence") is simply childish. It contributes nothing. Yet on every Reg story mentioning AI or ML or anything even vaguely related we must have a dozen posts to grind the axe.
"While I am optimistic about the potential to bring technology to bear on the greatest problems in the world, we are on a path that we must tread with deep responsibility, care, and humility. That is Alphabet’s goal.”
I rather thought it was making money myself. Oh well, maybe the tech messiahs of Silicon Valley are not such amoral geeks after all. So you won't be bothered anymore when we do point out any transgressions of your noble pureheartedness in the future. Some sort of slogan might be needed to capture this new gracious spirit that has wafted down upon you. How about "Don't be Hypocritical"?
Did anyone read what Brin actually said?
"When we started the company, neural networks were a forgotten footnote in computer science; a remnant of the AI winter of the 1980’s. Yet today, this broad brush of technology has found an astounding number of applications. We now use it to:
understand images in Google Photos;
enable Waymo cars to recognize and distinguish objects safely;
significantly improve sound and camera quality in our hardware;
understand and produce speech for Google Home;
translate over 100 languages in Google Translate;
caption over a billion videos in 10 languages on YouTube;
improve the efficiency of our data centers;
suggest short replies to emails;
help doctors diagnose diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy;
discover new planetary systems;
create better neural networks (AutoML);
... and much more."
Which means natural language processing is the AI.
This is AI (answers on Definition questions, NIST TRED QA):
Question: All right, would you like to talk about moral issues?
Answer: OK ...
Question: May I ask you to spare some change?
Answer:
[2.8% Fyodor Dostoevsk_108]
Esteeming, and so to say, adoring you, I may at the same time, very well indeed, be able to dislike some member of your family
I used Dostoevsky's 'Brother Karamazov' and 'Crime and Punishment' as the data for his Lexical Clone, answering Definition. IBM Watson answers Factoid.
This is Machine Learning:
Question: I see that you would not like to fight. Where is you honor?
Answer:
[28.9% Fyodor Dostoevsk_175]
Where are you going
[18.9% Fyodor Dostoevsk_694]
You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom
[17.7% Fyodor Dostoevsk_353]
I thought you were
[14.4% Fyodor Dostoevsk_353]
Yes, you are, indeed
[13.4% Fyodor Dostoevsk_353]
You are very like Lizabetha Prokofievna
Question: I challenge you!
Answer:
[100.0% History]
I challenge you
Having no his own words (which emotionally satisfy Dostoevsky) - he borrowed and memorized mine.
The technology at the US PTO. Please verify my technology?
I spoke with Plato Lexical Clone (asked a collection of his dialogues some Definition questions, NIST TREC QA):
Q: I am your the most thankfulness student. I love you. Thank you! I think that you are the wisest man that had existed! I am your admirer!
A:
[8.3% Plat_274]
THEAETETUS: I must, if I am to keep pace with the argument
Q: Say something: I am very smart and would understand you at once if you would explain everything to me step after step.
A:
[3.8% History]
I am too smart
Q: Who is smart: you Socrates or me, your student?
A:
[5.3% History]
Say something: I am very smart and would understand you at once if you would explain everything to me step after step
Plato learned my language and mocks me: an AI is extremely sensitive, the same as its prototype. My English is not good for Plato... This is ML.
"Tristan Greene, The Next Web, explained how the technology works: "Craft uses the annotations from videos to determine how the original images correspond to the words used to describe them."
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-04-explore-cartoons-text-descriptions.html
Thus these is the way how to structure texts off-line and it works: no more Google, FB, Amazon or Twitter espionage and we will soon own our own data. All Internet search engines/companies are out of business.
I did it,my work.
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