Topic: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI (Read 314 times)
Yes this is the next stage of exponential technological growth. It cannot be stopped.
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The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-googles-ai-play-go/
AI wins $290,000 in Chinese poker competition
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39564836
Human intellect will increasingly become supplanted by machine intellect. We are seeing the start of it in our lifetimes. Hopefully we will be wise enough to incorporate morals into our machines.
Here are a few more highlights:
The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/sadness-beauty-watching-googles-ai-play-go/
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“It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move,” he says. “So beautiful.” It’s a word he keeps repeating. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.
The move was the 37th in the second game of the historic Go match between Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system built by researchers at Google.
The move was the 37th in the second game of the historic Go match between Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top players, and AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system built by researchers at Google.
AI wins $290,000 in Chinese poker competition
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39564836
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The AI system, called Lengpudashi, won a landslide victory and $290,000 (£230,000) in the five-day competition.
It is the second time this year that an AI program has beaten competitive poker players.
It is the second time this year that an AI program has beaten competitive poker players.
Human intellect will increasingly become supplanted by machine intellect. We are seeing the start of it in our lifetimes. Hopefully we will be wise enough to incorporate morals into our machines.
Ah yes, the unsettling part of AI. This is why nothing of mine (at least nothing important of mine) will ever be controlled by an AI, I just don't trust it (not even that I'm worried that it'll turn into something that wants to kill me like some sci-fi movie theme, but just that I know it'll make mistakes and I don't want may car plummeting off a cliff because of some AI glitch).
Skynet is just around the corner 
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Read more at https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/.
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn't look different from other autonomous cars, but it was unlike anything demonstrated by Google, Tesla, or General Motors, and it showed the rising power of artificial intelligence. The car didn't follow a single instruction provided by an engineer or programmer. Instead, it relied entirely on an algorithm that had taught itself to drive by watching a human do it.
Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling, since it isn't completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle's sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems. The result seems to match the responses you'd expect from a human driver.
Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling, since it isn't completely clear how the car makes its decisions. Information from the vehicle's sensors goes straight into a huge network of artificial neurons that process the data and then deliver the commands required to operate the steering wheel, the brakes, and other systems. The result seems to match the responses you'd expect from a human driver.
Read more at https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/.
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