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RE: Musk, Zuckerberg Trade Insults Over AI's "Existential Threat"
There is much FUD over Artificial Intelligence as it evolves at a fast pace. Of course AI is being used more and more, including in our smartphones in the form of Siri, Google Assistant and Cortana.
But I am sure that the developers of AI applications and creators of robots will bring in enough checks and balances to ensure that robots don't become the primary decision makers. Till the time humans are ones controlling the buttons I think we are going to be fine.
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Agreed! We can get into a discussion as to what exactly qualifies as AI. Some argue that Siri e.g. is not AI (even though it started as an AI project) or not the AI as we imagine of the future. This could get into semantics.
At some point we have to make sure our robots/AI are programmed to follow Asimov's Zero'th Law in the Foundation series:
"A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. ... Humanity is an abstraction."
If robots natural instinct is to help humanity. Would it's first job not be to kill at least 3 billion people which would be our eldely, sick and then poor? After all we are bursting at the seems so to speak?
Interesting circular reasoning but.....That is why the directives / laws override any "natural instincts" AI/robots learn through their neural learning. As Asimov wrote the directives can not be overridden (or should not!); since the elderly, sick, and poor are people too they can not be hurt because of the overriding Zero'th Law - No Harm to Humans. If we lose the ability to control machines in any literal sense completely we will have existential problems then.