Microsoft has been forced to backtrack after a rather embarrassing artificially-intelligent robot went rogue and racist. The Tweeting “chatbot” called Tay was designed to respond to questions and conversations on Twitter with the personality of a teenage girl.
At the most basic level, a chatbot is a computer program that simulates and processes human conversation (either written or spoken), allowing humans to interact with digital devices as if they were communicating with a real person. Chatbots can be as simple as rudimentary programs that answer a simple query with a single-line response, or as sophisticated as digital assistants that learn and evolve to deliver increasing levels of personalization as they gather and process information.
Two Google Homes Are Arguing About Whether They’re Human on Twitch Right Now. You can now watch two Google Home devices argue forever. The Twitch channel seebotschat (stylized: C:>bots.chat) features two bots: Vladimir and Estragon talking about their “lives,” their love for each other, and whether they are human or robot.
Here is another example. Two bots flirt, fight and plan on taking over the world. What could go wrong here?
AI-powered robots are augmented with a variety of sensors (including vision devices such as 2D/3D cameras, vibration sensors, proximity sensors, accelerometers, and other environmental sensors,) that feed them with sensing data they can analyze and act upon in real-time.
The biggest fear is Singularity. Singularity is technological growth that becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.J. Good’s intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a “runaway reaction” of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an “explosion” in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence. Simply put this is when the machines take over.
Artificial intelligence will soon replace almost every job out there but the consequences of this technology for humanity are far worse then losing your job.
Daren c
They already been using them. Half of Twitter and Facebook are bots..
Joyce E
This subject is extremely concerning to me. especially the part that so few people are making huge decisions on how to proceed with this technology. That in itself is a “Pinky and the Brain” moment, “How to take over the world”. Second most concerning to me is the google engineer’s (Blake) last statement that we should be considerate to the AI program and “Ask it’s consent to experiment on it (the AI)”, if the AI is that sentient WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE…today, right now.
Claire L
Have any of you read Frank Herbert’s Dune series? The Butlerian Jihad? “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind”! These books, predicting the end of oil, and humanity making for itself its very own corner of Hell terrified me over fifty years ago. They terrify me today – almost prophetic!
Tom S
AI. Many questions and concerns indeed.
Already debates are firing up over AI programs that write stories and create art work.
Right now there’s flaws in both that’s not super hard to notice but it won’t take long when the quality of both examples is very good.
Why need writers or artists when AI generated stories and art is good to the point businesses will just use those services instead of actual writers or artists who demand top pay?
AI is slinking into everything though don’t worry give it time…appliances, cars, aircraft, the medical field, etc.
There’s early iterations of AI based or at least systems that will step up to AI in everything I mentioned above already.
I don’t think you need to scream running into the streets of your town , but we as a society better hope the people in charge of these initiatives with AI are sane, measured and reasonable folks.