Here is a thought provoking essay from the public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier: AI and Microdirectives – Schneier on Security Something to read with the morning coffee this weekend. It is actually “further listening – The BBC Reith Lectures, by Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center …
More on an AI risk and an extinction event
AI risk what is it? This is a follow-up to last weekend’s more extensive post looking at the AI extinction event that was making headlines in the mainstream media. If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen (theconversation.com) Professor Nello Cristianini, …
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The AI Risk
There have been some very sensational articles in both the fringe and mainstream media about the AI risk to wipe out the human race! Here is the statement on the Centre for AI Safety website that led to these stories : Statement on AI Risk | CAIS (safe.ai) The essay …
Because It’s Friday – bringing two of my favourite Friday themes together…
Here is something from Scott Adams, to make you smile at the end of the week. It brings together coffee and artificial intelligence: Ai Based On Wally – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-11-02 | Dilbert by Scott Adams The cartoon got me thinking – kill the AI – which reminded …
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Back to Google’s “sentient” AI
Here are a couple of articles looking at the issues raised around Google’s AI chatbot, LaMDA (language model for dialog applications), because Blake Lemoine, an engineer working with the system, has claimed LaMDA is sentient. Google was not pleased – they suspended Blake, for publishing confidential company property. Google does …