The release of the Top Ten over hyped AI stories of 2019 has led the way for further promising ones, including this one, says engineer and philosopher Jonathan Bartlett: Was the machine cleverand sneaky or was it just programmed wrong? You decide. First, just to be clear, at Mind Matters we have nothing against AI. […]
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence: Machines do not see objects as wholes
Mistaking a teapot shape for a golf ball, due to surface features, is one striking example from a recent open-access paper: The networks did “a poor job of identifying such items as a butterfly, an airplane and a banana,” according to the researchers. The explanation they propose is that “Humans see the entire object, while […]
But if humans are meat machines, how do ethics come into the picture?
Montanez: The AI and ML systems we have in place today are not sentient, but they are still dangerous. I am not worried about the future of AI, but I am concerned about the dangers artificial learning systems currently pose.
Real Intelligence Can Never Be Matched by the Artificial
Scary predictions are a thriving business but that does not make them a road map to the future.
Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?
Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the information technology (IT) industry today…
Why artificial intelligence (AI) cannot produce a Universal Answers Machine
Okay, let’s start with Can an algorithm be racist? Well, the machine has no opinion. It processes vast tracts of data. But, as a result, the troubling hidden roots of some data are exposed.
Top Ten AI Hype Countdown 1: IBM’s Watson Is Not Our New Computer Overlord
Watson won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists.
Top Ten AI Hype 2: AI Can Write Novels and Screenplays Better than the Pros!
AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Software can automatically generate word sequences based on material fed in from existing scripts: In 2016, Ars Technica was proud to be sponsoring “the first AI-written sci-fi script:” As explained in The Guardian, a recurrent neural network “was fed the scripts of dozens of science fiction movies […]
Can Big Data beat the humans who compile it? A computer pioneer bet No
Fred Brooks says that human intelligence augmented by artificial intelligence will always beat artificial intelligence alone. Is he right? Jed Macosko, an assistant prof at Wake Forest University, explains: Before we envision scary scenes from The Matrix, we need to remember that Zor, Deep Blue, and any future AI systems are inevitably designed by humans. […]
2018 AI Hype Countdown 4: Robert J. Marks on the claim, Making AI Look More Human Makes It More Human-like!
Some are apparently wowed. Others remain unwowed.
2018 AI Hype Countdown 5: Robert J. Marks on the claim, AI Can Fight Hate Speech!
AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: AI can carry out its programmers’ biases and that’s all: Some people may be under the illusion that AI detection of hate speech will be disinterested and fair. After all, the assessment is being done by a computer, which has no ideology or political leanings. An added […]
2018 AI Hype Countdown 6: Robert J. Marks on the claim, AI Can Even Find Loopholes in the Code!
AI adopts a solution in an allowed set, maybe not the one you expected:. In the same paper in which researchers purported to find examples of AI creativity, we also read the following statement about problems with performance: “Exacerbating the issue, it is often functionally simpler for evolution to exploit loopholes in the quantitative measure […]
2018 AI Hype Countdown 7: Robert J. Marks on the claim Computers can develop creative solutions on their own!
Programmers may be surprised by which solution, from a range they built in, comes out on top
2018 AI Hype Countdown 8: AI Just Needs a Bigger Truck!
AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Can we create superintelligent computers just by adding more computing power? The claim that AI can be written to evolve even smarter AI is slowly being abandoned. AI software pioneer François Chollet, for example, concluded in “The Impossibility of Intelligence Explosion” that the search should be abandoned: […]
9: Will That Army Robot Squid Ever Be “Self-Aware”?
From the 2018 AI Hype Countdown at Mind Matters #9: AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: What would it take for a robot to be self-aware? The Army Times headline would jolt your morning coffee: Army researchers are developing a self-aware squid-like robot you can 3D print in the field Reporter Todd South […]