Thanks Zee. Certainly very concerning on where this is all going to end up. Here in the UK we have an AI Minister, responsible for monitoring developments in the industry, but he has no control on what is happening outside of the UK. It is time we started to ask more questions, I'm afraid like most people outside the industry, trying to understand, to make sense of all this is not easy. It seems it is an industry very difficult to inspect, scrutinise in every detail, to determine if sufficient safety is in place, it is unlike the nuclear industry for example. I think you are absolutely right, more of us do need to raise our own concerns with politicians, and to know what they can do, and what they are doing about it.

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I am reading a book entitled. "Thinking Machines" by Luke Dormehl, a technology writer, Penguin publication 2016.

It covers the history and development of AI from the beginning to 2016. Worth a read if interested in AI, particularly the history, it's not a technical text book.

There is a strong point made in the book by a British mathematician, Irving John Good, who had worked with Alan Turing during worldwar2 as a codebreaker.

An extract from the book,(page 227)

"In 1965, Good penned an essay where he theorised on what a superintelligent machine would mean for the world. He defined such an AI as a computer capable of far surpassing all the intellectual activities that make us intelligent. In a widely quoted passage, he wrote.

'Since the design of machines is one of those intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines, there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion", and the intelligence of man would be left far behind . Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make'.

Good's essay - and the debate it stirred up - none the less carries an air of ambiguity. Is an ultraintelligent machine the last invention we need make because it will solve all
the problems we could ever conceivably face as a species, or is it our last because it will wipe us out entirely? We might gain some clues on Good's own perspective from his later work as a consultant on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 : A Space Odyssey, in which the 'smart' AI known as HAL 9000 turns murderous and starts killing off its human crew."

Not looking too good is it?
Have we reached that stage of an ultraintelligent machine, personally I don't think we are there yet, but definitely a time to think about how such a machine can be controlled, and I agree Zee, what our politicians should be doing about it.

Van Halen.

Probably woman power, forget it and move on there are a lot more women out there. Good luck in your search.

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Thanks again Zee, a very interesting interview video. I think the talk of the huge loss of jobs is very significant, how this would be managed requires government intervention in my opinion. Regarding these AIs hacking other computer systems, as the recent hack in Australia, the blame must fall on the producers of the AI, maybe heavy fines will sharpen up their safety measures, suddenly having to pay a few million dollars out in compensation would not go down well. These companies producing AIs need regulation, sadly it seems little is being done to do that right now.

We are all living with the threat of nuclear war, this is another threat we are all going to have to live with.

I agree there are the legal implications, which are even now under scrutiny with driverless vehicles controlled by AI. In the event of a fatal accident where the driverless car is at fault, who is responsible, the coder/programmer, the service provider, the car designer, etc. I don't know whether, if any, decisions have been made here in the UK. There should be a lot more discussion regarding these AI systems and the legal operating requirements of the companies creating these AI systems, and their responsibilities. Seems no one wants to constrain these AIs because they are frightened of falling behind in the development of their own, so its very much the Wild West out there.

These AIs do make judgements or a better word would be decisions, and respond accordingly, but I believe this is following a program.

We are now hearing of the creation of quantum computers, machines that if and when produced, would be so much quicker and more powerful than the digital computers in use today. Hopefully, we will all still be here to see these future developments

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MH370 is certainly a mystery, and the search continues in 2027 when the better weather arrives in the search area again.

Apparently the pilot is a strong suspect after they found information on a flight simulator at his home, showing he had looked at maps of the area where they believe the flight ended, but nothing more than that.

At least it looks like the Robocop is unarmed. I agree, traffic cop is one thing, one turning up at your local shopping mall as security would certainly be different.

Do you think we will see the Robo Police soon?


Robcop is on the way in China.


http://www.youtube.com/shorts/KZ9I5-0LuGE


Here is one ewe made earlier.

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Sorry double post.

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These neural nets are very complex, have taken years to develop, and are used in computer systems. I cannot see how you could program an AI to think for itself. You can program it to make decisions based on searches, visual. internet, ect. and move through a decision process, but I can never see a time when a machine would be able to decide for itself outside a program. I don't see an AI thinking for itself, rather than following a program. These conversations we here of between a user and an AI where the user has killed themselves are extremely rare, but this is where we definitely need safeguards in place.

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