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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Make predictions about things that will happen LONG after your career is over.
How convenient.
Oh come on, it’s not THAT bad.
AI is a real field of study, and it is actually testable! We don’t have to rely on models and projections, we can code up neural nets and other types of AI programs and let them run wild and see what actually happens.
Sure, they are projecting into the future based on what we know now, but at least the basic science is more solid than climate guessery.
unlike the climate science this stuff is for real and its coming fast. unless you’re a plumber or electrician or dustman your jobs will change or go away.
A machine can only be programmed to pretend to be self-aware. It has no soul; it can never be “alive”.
Step Two: Job for life.
Having been involved in electro-mechanical control systems since the advent of the micro-processor, I know our silicon (and other carbon and non-carbon ) based masters are busy evolving themselves to become our gods.
That's why I find Person of Interest to be the only TV show I watch on a regular basis.
It’s the 100 yr thing, not the study of the issue/technology.
Actually the promise of AI has been out there for decades with little to show until lately.....
Yes, I would agree to that, hence the “artificial” part of “artificial intelligence”.
Ah okay. That is a bit overly ambitious, but I guess when you are trying to secure funding, go big or go home!
What about a biological machine?
Well, the larger field of computer science is still young, and our understanding of the nature of consciousness and intelligence is even sparser. I think one of the benefits of AI research is what we can learn about ourselves through it. We can’t exactly rewire a human brain to see what happens if we fool around with it, but we can test different ways of “thinking” with computer programs and gain valuable insights.
Unless...
All of the above come with some seriously bad juju.
All of the above come with bad juju.
Unfortunately a lot of my recommendations would probably not agree to be studied: Reid, Pelosi, Biden (any of them), Jackson-Lee, Sharpton, etc.
If they figure out how to put the ghost in the machine, then it will work.
But it’s un-Godly, so don’t do it.
The first phase of AI research has been to clear up misconception about human brain and intelligence. For example, it took a while for researchers to realized that human intelligence is not a degraded form of mathematical logic.
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