[FRIAM] AI advance

[Steven A Smith]

> " AlphaGo itself isn't scary it's what comes next and so on and how quickly these advances are progressing that give some great minds cause for concern."
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> I just hope it comes soon.  Humans aren't making very good decisions lately.
Maybe... but somehow I'm not a lot more confident in the *product* of 
humans who make bad decisions making *better* decisions?

Coal Fired Power Plants, Internal Combustion Engines, and even Smart 
Grids make decisions based on their creators values all the time. Why 
would an AI created by short-sited, narrow-minded humans do any better?

Our Government and all of our Institutions are roughly "human steered 
AI"... rule-based programs if you will.   And I'm not real proud of most 
of them right now?

I *did* like the image of AI offered up in the movie "She" a few years ago.

A kinder, gentler transcendence?

Utopia/Dystopia!

Just Sayin'!
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> Marcus
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