Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned us of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence, but is AI really going to be the downfall of humanity?
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The Code We Can’t Control
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/01/black_box_society_by_frank_pasquale_a_chilling_vision_of_how_big_data_has.html
“Can a computer program be racist? Imagine this scenario: A program that screens rental applicants is primed with examples of personal history, debt, and the like.”
The Stupidity of Computers
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/essays/stupidity-of-computers/
“COMPUTERS ARE NEAR-OMNIPOTENT cauldrons of processing power, but they’re also stupid.”
The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/the-dawn-of-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/283730/
“The advances we’ve seen in the past few years-cars that drive themselves, useful humanoid robots, speech recognition and synthesis systems, 3D printers, Jeopardy!-champion computers-are not the crowning achievements of the computer era.”
AI must turn focus to safety, Stephen Hawking and other researchers say
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ai-must-turn-focus-to-safety-stephen-hawking-and-other-researchers-say-1.2899067
“Artificial intelligence researchers should focus on ensuring AI systems ‘do what we want them to do,’ rather than just advancing and improving the capabilities of the technology, researchers and experts say.”
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