[FRIAM] AI advance

[Pamela McCorduck]

> On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:32 AM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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>> " 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?
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> 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?

For one thing, it can search a larger search space for solutions.
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> 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?

Not at all the same.
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> I *did* like the image of AI offered up in the movie "She" a few years ago.

Me too, especially how lonely the humans were when their AI pals deserted them because frankly, they were too boring.