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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

But... Can... A... Killer... Robot... Love...?

Time for A Tech-Talk Thought Leader "Deep Think"!
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4 comments:

jimf said...

Can a killer robot make sushi?

9:09 PM
Dale Carrico said...

Out of humans, I expect.

1:45 AM
jimf said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/style/ava-of-ex-machina-is-just-sci-fi-for-now.html
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[C]oncern about unchecked innovations could apply to all kinds of disciplines,
including bioengineering, smart homes, self-driving cars and medical nanobots,
to name a few. And while these breakthroughs are intended to help humanity,
they could backfire without the proper oversight.

This fear isn’t just confined to science-fiction filmmakers, or people who
wear tinfoil hats. In recent years, experts in robotics, cosmology and
artificial intelligence have set out to tackle the issue of oversight,
holding symposiums and creating research organizations.

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, recently donated $10 million to the Future
of Life Institute, an organization that seeks to “mitigate existential
risks facing humanity” from “human-level artificial intelligence.”

The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that tries to help humanity
combat the “existential risks” of genetic engineering, nanotechnology
and the so-called singularity, which refers to the hypothetical moment
when artificial intelligence surpasses the human intellect.

And in 2012, philosophers and scientists at Cambridge University
formed the Center for Study of Existential Risk, with the goal to
ensure “that our own species has a long-term future.” . . .

It’s not hard to imagine other potential doomsday outcomes.
Last month, plant geneticists at the University of Minnesota created
a DNA-engineered potato that doesn’t accumulate sugars, so it can
sit on a shelf for years without rotting. It’s unclear how consuming
that potato may affect the human body. . .
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". . .tackle the issue of oversight. . ."

At first glance, I read that as "overweight".

Step away from the potato!

9:44 AM
Dale Carrico said...

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, recently donated $10 million to the Future of Life Institute, an organization that seeks to “mitigate existential risks facing humanity” from “human-level artificial intelligence.”

The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit that tries to help humanity combat the “existential risks” of genetic engineering, nanotechnology and the so-called singularity

I love it that these Very Serious robocultic efforts are offered up in the aftermath of the assertion:

This fear isn’t just confined to science-fiction filmmakers, or people who wear tinfoil hats. In recent years, experts in robotics, cosmology and artificial intelligence have set out to tackle the issue of oversight, holding symposiums and creating research organizations.

These aren't tinfoil hat wearing conspiracists or tech-VCs hyping their crappy products or people who lack the critical skills to distinguish science from science fiction, my word, no, these are "experts"! Tech-illiteracy coupled with informercial tech-journalism is eroding our capacity to disregard fraudulent marketing practices and robocultic indoctination/ plutocratic ideology in order to focus on sound technoscientific policy deliberation about the sustainable/equitable distribution of actual costs, risks, and benefits of technoscientific changes to the diversity of their actual stakeholders. As I've said a million times, boring even myself at this point.

2:30 PM

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