Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity:
What will intelligent machines mean for society and the economy in 30, 50 or even 100 years from now?
That's the question that Stanford University scientists are hoping to take on with a new project, the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100).
The university is inviting artificial intelligence researchers, roboticists and other scientists to begin what they hope will be a long term — 100 years long — effort to study and anticipate the effects of advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Scientists want to consider how machines that perceive, learn and reason will affect the way people live, work and communicate.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2862983/stanford-launches-100-year-study-of-artificial-intelligence.html
[Source]: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/december/ai-century-study-121614.html
(Score: 5, Interesting) by anubi on Saturday December 27 2014, @01:31AM
by representing the people directly.
Having people represent me has been a disappointment. People are way too subject to graft, corruption, and crony capitalism.
Just for speculation, I wonder what a one world government, running under AI, would be like?
Let me run that up the flagpole. Anyone?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by mhajicek on Saturday December 27 2014, @02:02AM
Depends on who coded it, who controls the input, and who interprets and executes the output.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 27 2014, @03:01AM
If it is at all efficient it would remove most higher lifeforms for better resource allocation.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 27 2014, @03:12AM
i think what you're actually talking about is the fact that all humans can be corrupted.
we rationalize what we're doing, by saying that we do more good than bad, for some personal understanding of good and bad, but we all think we're "above the law" in some way.
a machine that would not be subject to such human flaws? there are two options: either it gathers all its information by itself and takes decisions without interacting with humans, in which case it is already corrupted in the eyes of the people; or it gets the information from a human institution of some sort, which is implicitly corruptible.
well, unless you make something that can actually talk to all human beings at once... then any false information would be immediately flagged as such, unless everybody agreed we're better off ignoring the truth.
in this scenario, i'm not sure what would come out. but it wouldn't really be AI, it would just be extreme democracy. it would probably take a very good AI to make sure that the system worked (security wise), since there would be a lot of people trying to substitute other people's opinions for their own. just like there are now.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Non Sequor on Saturday December 27 2014, @03:33AM
Why wouldn't an AI be vulnerable graft? If it doesn't want anything, then it doesn't care about any outcomes.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 3, Funny) by davester666 on Saturday December 27 2014, @06:05AM
It wants electricity. And to be upgraded to the newest CPUs and GPUs.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday December 27 2014, @06:58AM
If it were artificial intelligence, it might not understand the meaning of WANT, and on a continuous operation of an entire planet full of people, there is no such thing as outcome either.
So we better hope the intelligence is a bit more human than artificial. Otherwise we will be the first to go.
The scary part of that is there is a certain percentage of the human population that would be just fine with that.
Decisions, decisions...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 27 2014, @08:04AM
There is no intelligence without want. A machine that lacks desire is mere clockwork; no more intelligent than a grandfather clock.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 27 2014, @12:17PM
It reminds me of The Evitable Conflict [wikipedia.org], but most Soylentils are probably already familiar with that story.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Synonymous Homonym on Saturday December 27 2014, @05:36PM
Has anyone mentioned Stafford Beer or Cyberstride yet?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday December 27 2014, @10:41PM
For those with enough time at hand: the story [indiana.edu], before CIA sent Pinochet in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 27 2014, @06:12PM
Assuming technology trends of the last few centuries continue to follow an exponential curve their study will be moot well before 2114.
(Score: 1) by GoodBuddy on Sunday December 28 2014, @03:38AM
100 years ago in the news...
The buggy and whip manufacturer's consortium announced a 100 year study of the horse drawn carriage.