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> Machines shouldn't act like humans I'm surprised - does that mean ML/AI isn't calm ? Why ?

rajadigopula 10y ago
Maybe to emphasize that machines are there to make the human task easy but not let them get lazy and develop a hard dependency on the machine! As in - I can't do this without using some X machine, is a clear sign that we developed a hard dependency on the machine and we fail to learn/understand how to do the task without using the machine. Happening a lot, the boundary is fading slowly. The human dependency on machines is constantly increasing, intelligent/ AI machines take this to next level e.g. Self-driving cars.
- Kadin 10y ago
  It's been a very long time since humans haven't been dependent on machines. There's a legitimate question to how complex the supply chains are that produce those machines, and whether as a result it makes society and civilization more fragile (if I'm dependent on farm implements from a blacksmith in the center of town, that's different from being dependent on LED displays only made in 3 factories in the world, all of which are on the other side of the planet). But I think the general idea of "don't become dependent on machines" is a ship that sailed long before any of us were even born.
bduerst 10y ago
In context, they mean that machines should only amplify the best human traits, and vice versa. For example, a social network should amplify human liking/loving and not human disliking/hating.
PeterisP 10y ago
It highlights the issue that when a machine does a task, usually the best way to do it will be not like a human would do it. Even if we had cheap full-general-AI humanoid robots to do the tasks, it may be better to do the necessary interactions as with a machine, not as with a fellow human - even in a pure business transaction much of our communication is determined by social factors, the fundamental person-to-person relationships. For example, if I go to a dealer to buy a car, if that process would be replaced with technology, then it would be wrong to make that technology to parrot the interactions I'd usually have with a human salesman. If technology is used to take orders in a restaurant and serve food, then imitating a waiter or waitress might be a marketing novelty, but it's not the appropriate way to do it. It's a different medium now, machines shouldn't act like humans.

Maybe to emphasize that machines are there to make the human task easy but not let them get lazy and develop a hard dependency on the machine! As in - I can't do this without using some X machine, is a clear sign that we developed a hard dependency on the machine and we fail to learn/understand how to do the task without using the machine. Happening a lot, the boundary is fading slowly. The human dependency on machines is constantly increasing, intelligent/ AI machines take this to next level e.g. Self-driving cars.

Kadin 10y ago
It's been a very long time since humans haven't been dependent on machines. There's a legitimate question to how complex the supply chains are that produce those machines, and whether as a result it makes society and civilization more fragile (if I'm dependent on farm implements from a blacksmith in the center of town, that's different from being dependent on LED displays only made in 3 factories in the world, all of which are on the other side of the planet). But I think the general idea of "don't become dependent on machines" is a ship that sailed long before any of us were even born.

bduerst 10y ago

In context, they mean that machines should only amplify the best human traits, and vice versa. For example, a social network should amplify human liking/loving and not human disliking/hating.

PeterisP 10y ago

It highlights the issue that when a machine does a task, usually the best way to do it will be not like a human would do it. Even if we had cheap full-general-AI humanoid robots to do the tasks, it may be better to do the necessary interactions as with a machine, not as with a fellow human - even in a pure business transaction much of our communication is determined by social factors, the fundamental person-to-person relationships. For example, if I go to a dealer to buy a car, if that process would be replaced with technology, then it would be wrong to make that technology to parrot the interactions I'd usually have with a human salesman. If technology is used to take orders in a restaurant and serve food, then imitating a waiter or waitress might be a marketing novelty, but it's not the appropriate way to do it. It's a different medium now, machines shouldn't act like humans.