Posted on 12/17/2014 6:33:19 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence
Stanford University will lead a 100-year effort to study the long-term implications of artificial intelligence in all aspects of life.
By Chris Cesare
Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering and of computer science at Stanford, will serve as faculty director of the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence.
Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several institutions to begin a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play.
This effort, called the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, or AI100, is the brainchild of computer scientist and Stanford alumnus Eric Horvitz, who, among other credits, is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
In that capacity, Horvitz convened a conference in 2009 at which top researchers considered advances in artificial intelligence and its influences on people and society, a discussion that illuminated the need for continuing study of AI's long-term implications.
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Ah, I’m from another generation. I think we got our first personal computer in my house when I was about 4 years old, when the “home computing” revolution just got underway.
You forgot one:
* If wish upon a star and the blue fairy comes and sprinkles some pixie dust on it (but still it will have to prove that it can be a good boy before it can really be alive)
Well, my parents wouldn’t buy me a computer for my bedroom, much less get me a ‘net connection. I was deprived....
AI? I guess the machines with AI will have more intelligence than Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas and 99.9% of the Democrat voters.
“It has no soul; it can never be “alive”.”
You mean like Democrats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6syRRHTTic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPDvsLSnUGc
Why invent a machine? I have some rocks in the backyard that meet that criteria.
>>Actually the promise of AI has been out there for decades with little to show until lately....<<
The abilities of AI pretty much match Moore’s Law.
Some of the biggest milestones:
*) Deep Blue
*) Watson
So you can expect AI capabilities to take off exponentially. From what I have read, the self-driving car is dang near ready for prime time.
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