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Found this a little ironic, in a funny way - the article was written in association with IBM. Funny enough, the movie 2001 which the article images are from, is
by abdias 11y ago
Found this a little ironic, in a funny way - the article was written in association with IBM. Funny enough, the movie 2001 which the article images are from, is hinting to IBM but in an obscured way. For example, the name HAL is IBM shifted one char to the left and you can even see IBM logo on some machines in the movie.
Besides from that I think unless IBM knows the future and all unknowns, we cannot really be sure what will come out of AI. Which is why we should be very careful with it.
- rbanffy 11y agoThis article was co-written by Watson. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about the risks of a superhuman autonomous self-improving AI. Everything is going extremely well.
- abdias 11y ago^ famous last words.. :)
- CM30 11y agoNo, the point about HAL 9000 being named after IBM isn't true: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/index.html#slot7 The video game company HAL Laboratory (maker of the Kirby series)... they did name their company so each letter was one before IBM: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_where_the_name_hal_laboratory_came_from http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/iwata_explains_wher...
- abdias 11y agoThanks, I stand corrected. It was a fun theory though and it will probably not go away anytime soon. Kubrick himself claimed HAL stood for "heuristic and algorithmic" according to this article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/07/hal_9000_ibm_theory_stanley_kubrick_letters_shed_new_light_on_old_debate.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/07/hal_9000_ibm_...