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posted by n1 on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the skynet-wants-to-know dept.

How can we ensure that artificial intelligence provides the greatest benefit to all of humanity? 

By that, we don’t necessarily mean to ask how we create AIs with a sense of justice. That's important, of course—but a lot of time is already spent weighing the ethical quandaries of artificial intelligence. How do we ensure that systems trained on existing data aren’t imbued with human ideological biases that discriminate against users? Can we trust AI doctors to correctly identify health problems in medical scans if they can’t explain what they see? And how should we teach driverless cars to behave in the event of an accident?

The thing is, all of those questions contain an implicit assumption: that artificial intelligence is already being put to use in, for instance, the workplaces, hospitals, and cars that we all use. While that might be increasingly true in the wealthy West, it’s certainly not the case for billions of people in poorer parts of the world. To that end, United Nations agencies, AI experts, policymakers and businesses have gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a three-day summit called AI for Good. The aim: “to evaluate the opportunities presented by AI, ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.”

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:26AM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:26AM (#523758)

    for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit?

    Why can't these be one in the same? Surely profit is the greatest good for some of us.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:36AM (4 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:36AM (#523759) Journal

    Surely profit is the greatest good for some of us.

    I think it's a lot smaller than the "Money is the root of all evil" people think. More profit means you can buy more things that you want, status signal more, etc. It's means to ends.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:28PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:28PM (#523880)

      The fucking quote is "LOVE OF" money is the root of all evil. But preach it to us, like you know what the fuck you're talking about, prick.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:53PM (#523886)

        preach it to us, like you know

        GP did not say that in the Bible, I Timothy Chap 6. Verse 10 [biblegateway.com] had been changed to a briefer version, as you seem to think, and go full nutjob over.

        GP said that "people think" that "money is the root of all evil" which is pretty hard to disprove. After all, if more than one person thinks that--and it's a common enough error--then the statement is perfectly true.

        You, on the other hand, are still an ass.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 12 2017, @12:46AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 12 2017, @12:46AM (#524053) Journal

        The fucking quote is "LOVE OF" money is the root of all evil. But preach it to us, like you know what the fuck you're talking about, prick.

        Ok, why do you think that was relevant? Even if we look at that relatively nuanced subcategory of belief, we still have the situation that more people love what they can do with money rather than the money itself. Once again, it is mostly means to ends which is completely missed by the people who speak of money (or some imaginary "love" for it) as an evil in itself.

        This isn't straw man either. For example, someone put a lot of effort into imaging a post-scarcity economy, called "Technocracy" [technocracy.ca]. While it has some interesting aspects, a key problem demonstrating some of the intellectual flaws with the approach was their attitude towards money [soylentnews.org]. TL;DR was that they took money out of their system because it was artificial scarcity, which is considered bad, then turned around and reintroduced money as "energy accounting" (with energy implicitly being a scarce resource, which was an additional contradiction since their idea of post-scarcity didn't have scarce resources, including energy). That shows a bunch of cognitive dissonance about the role of money (and about scarcity itself). They probably wouldn't have gone through this misdirected effort, if they didn't care about the evilness of money.

        The point here is that money is a tool. Optimizing for the greatest quantity of this tool is bad, but then what parameter isn't similarly bad when one optimizes it to ludicrous levels as AI may have the potential to do?

      • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday June 12 2017, @08:39AM

        by Wootery (2341) on Monday June 12 2017, @08:39AM (#524206)

        This isn't a YouTube comment thread. SN isn't the place for playground name-calling. Not even for ACs.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:04PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:04PM (#523767)

    The answer is "artificial scarcity". There is no meaningful scarcity in the world. It is manufactured so we can continuously chase the next level (while making a few vampires filthy rich). We are certainly not happier than people used to be some time ago.

    Opening your eyes is not that hard, actually, and seeing who is pulling the strings, why the new president is always worse than the last and is a bigger liar, why you need to make greater payments for taxes for nothing much in return, why new wars are starting daily and more innocent people murdered. It is not that hard to open your eyes and connect the dots...

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:31PM (3 children)

      There is no meaningful scarcity in the world.

      Yes, there is. Of intelligence for one. Especially between your ears.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:56PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @12:56PM (#523785)

        You are angry at Trump (the new Obama) being called a liar.

        Jews Continue to Attack Trump as He Publicly Fellates Them [dailystormer.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:32PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:32PM (#523881)

        Also a conspicuous shortage of cutting put downs. Shoulda just said yo mamma, dude.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:15PM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 11 2017, @01:15PM (#523791) Journal

      The answer is "artificial scarcity". There is no meaningful scarcity in the world.

      I guess that depends what "meaningful" means. But food doesn't magically appear at my lips ready to be eaten. It takes work, infrastructure, etc to make that happen.

      And some things, particularly money, work in the first place because they are artificially scarce. If everyone had all the money they wanted or could want, then there would be no reason to use it as a medium of exchange (the primary role of money) and thus, it wouldn't have value to us.

      We are certainly not happier than people used to be some time ago.

      And there's no reason to expect us to be happier even in a world of no artificial scarcity. Happiness is transitory even under the most perfect of circumstances. You need a better metric.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:34PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:34PM (#523883)

        I guess that depends what "meaningful" means. But food doesn't magically appear at my lips ready to be eaten.

        Maybe not, but yo mamma does.