Post by faskew on Feb 19, 2019 10:00:31 GMT -5
Interesting article from Wired News about AI. Basic concept is that AI is a tool, just like any other, and even if it were possible to make machines "conscious", there's no reason to and there are many reasons not to. In the meantime, we need to keep an eye on humans who misuse these tools to steal and enslave. (Not a great synopsis, but you get the idea). Long, but worth reading to anyone interested in AI and how the computer revolution will change humanity.
"As I have been arguing recently, we’re making tools, not colleagues, and the great danger is not appreciating the difference, which we should strive to accentuate, marking and defending it with political and legal innovations."
"...Once we recognize that people are starting to make life-or-death decisions largely on the basis of “advice” from AI systems whose inner operations are unfathomable in practice, we can see a good reason why those who in any way encourage people to put more trust in these systems than they warrant should be held morally and legally accountable..."
"Licensing and bonding the operators of these systems, just as we license pharmacists, crane operators, and other specialists whose errors and misjudgments can have dire consequences, could, with pressure from insurance companies and other underwriters, oblige creators of AI systems to go to extraordinary lengths to search for and reveal weaknesses and gaps in their products, and to train those entitled to operate them to watch out for them."
---Daniel C. Dennett
www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/
"As I have been arguing recently, we’re making tools, not colleagues, and the great danger is not appreciating the difference, which we should strive to accentuate, marking and defending it with political and legal innovations."
"...Once we recognize that people are starting to make life-or-death decisions largely on the basis of “advice” from AI systems whose inner operations are unfathomable in practice, we can see a good reason why those who in any way encourage people to put more trust in these systems than they warrant should be held morally and legally accountable..."
"Licensing and bonding the operators of these systems, just as we license pharmacists, crane operators, and other specialists whose errors and misjudgments can have dire consequences, could, with pressure from insurance companies and other underwriters, oblige creators of AI systems to go to extraordinary lengths to search for and reveal weaknesses and gaps in their products, and to train those entitled to operate them to watch out for them."
---Daniel C. Dennett
www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/