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(At the risk of stating the obvious.) It is likely we will soon have multiple AI's Out To Get You. We're pretty close to it, but I would assume current algorit

• khedoros1 9y ago
  > We're pretty close to it, but I would assume current algorithms are not "AI". Seems like it depends on your definition of "AI". We've got computer programs reading our communication, watching our browsing, and piecing together which patterns are likely to be the same person in different locations. Then they use that information, both alone and in aggregation with other peoples' info, and finding ads for things that the individual might be interested in. I understand at least some of the algorithms behind this, and have at least a fuzzy concept of most of the rest. It certainly crosses over into the category of what I'd call "AI". But that's the problem with the definition of Artificial Intelligence: It seems like the most-used definition is roughly "The collection of intelligent-seeming behaviors that we haven't figured out algorithms for yet".
• zanny 9y ago
  There is also a lot more profit to be made in AIs Out To Get You than AIs acting in your self interest. Machines are turning out very capable of exploiting weaknesses in the human psyche, as the article talked about.