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At one AI startup, we had what was called "Matthi's Law of Talking Robotics", after one of the founders: "Tell me you actually understood these rules!" The st
by IfOnlyYouKnew 8y ago
At one AI startup, we had what was called "Matthi's Law of Talking Robotics", after one of the founders:
"Tell me you actually understood these rules!"
The startup didn't make it, and its failure may actually have been connected to this insistence on being too smart for its own good. But it also never released half-ass products hurling racist insults or suggesting murder.
- LanceH 8y agoIf the human race was delayed until it was fully debugged, we wouldn't be here today. It's a bit arrogant to think that any AI is going to cover everything. Really, the better the AI, the more troubling edge cases that will exist.
- ams6110 8y agoOf course, the debugging of the human race was achieved by getting eaten by predators.
- behringer 8y agoWhat are you talking about? The human race is still racist :D How would you expect an AI to not be racist when we can't even fix the problem for ourselves?
- AstralStorm 8y agoIt's a feature not a bug, from a certain point of view accurate tens of thousands years ago. We do not know of such a feature of thought as adaptive or not given our tiny timeframes... Racism or some degree thereof may belong to a set known as evolutionarily stable strategies. Much like selfishness.
- muzani 8y agoHuman brains function on pattern recognition. Racism is a side effect of trying to force a pattern on everything. Computer brains are entirely different. They suck at pattern recognition and excel with data. They can probably have other flawed correlations, but in different ways to humans. Alexa is at the moment still a baby AI, and imo pretty cute as long as we don't give her anything dangerous.