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I think the common-man conception of AI is really flawed. Consider that autopilot -- clearly a form of AI -- was invented in 1914. AI is far older than computer
by dr_dshiv 7y ago
I think the common-man conception of AI is really flawed. Consider that autopilot -- clearly a form of AI -- was invented in 1914. AI is far older than computers and corporations are a clear and excellent example. It's a slippery slope -- and I think it is worth sliding all the way down. Once we realize how completely pervasive AI is, I think we have a much better understanding of how to govern it in the future.
Personally, I find cybernetics to have a much stronger philosophical basis than AI; I particularly like how Norbert Weiner described how cybernetic feedback loops can lower local entropy.
- djs070 7y agoI can't think of the definition of AI you could be using to say the autopilot is an AI. Autopilot didn't teach itself to fly the plane - it was explicitly programmed to do so.
- drdeca 7y agoDid Deep Blue teach itself to play chess? I’m not sure that “self-teaching” should be considered the defining criterion for AI.
- shmageggy 7y agoIt's not. Unless you want to rename decades of symbolic AI, probabilistic AI, and everything else that's not machine learning.
- andrewflnr 7y agoWhat human pilot taught themselves how to fly a plane? Arguably the Wright brothers and a few others, but otherwise humans are in approximately the same boat as the autopilot. It's just that the programming interface is a bit more sophisticated.