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.
