Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
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Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#2> Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions.
What about non-AI powered machines that mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions? For example, science journal paywalls.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#3Paging Dr. Susan Calvin.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#4> Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. What about non-AI powered machines that mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions? For example, science journal paywalls.
In my experience most researchers are more than happy to share with you the paper upon askance via e-mail.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#5> Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. What about non-AI powered machines that mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions? For example, science journal paywalls.
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Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#6Paging Dr. Susan Calvin.
"Robopsychology!" was my first thought haha.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#7> Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. What about non-AI powered machines that mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions? For example, science journal paywalls.
In my experience most researchers are more than happy to share with you the paper upon askance via e-mail.
If I asked for a paper and they looked at me askance, I'd wonder why I emailed them instead of just asking - since we're in viewing range obviously.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
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Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#9It's not clear to me how this "field" of study is any different from existing academic analyses of automation or computing. AI doesn't change what computers do; it affects only how it's done. The problems inherent in automation are as old as windmills, falling water, and certainly electricity.
Sure, a few modern fields are affected more than others, but improving voice recognition or visual object identification component by 20% doesn't fundamentally change the system using such code to a degree that it warrants a new academic discipline of study.
A new legal field of study on automation makes more sense to me. Algorithmic bias, product or service liability, baseline accountability, the standards of due diligence and safety -- these are rising concerns exacerbated by the recent increase in automation, AI-based or not. But these problems are hardly unique to AI any more than the misdirection of elections was unique to manipulation of digital social media.
I'm also doubtful that meaningful solutions to byproducts of automation by corporations and nations can be meaningfully addressed by a bunch of academic computer scientists.
Re: Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”
#10It's not clear to me how this "field" of study is any different from existing academic analyses of automation or computing. AI doesn't change what computers do; it affects only how it's done. The problems inherent in automation are as old as windmills, falling water, and certainly electricity. Sure, a few modern fields are affected more than others, but improving voice recognition or visual object identification comp…
>AI doesn't change what computers do, if affects only how it's done.
Except AI is very much changing how things are done as well as what computers do. Image recognition, natural language processing, self piloted vehicles, these are all novel applications for machines which carry significant real world risks to life and property.
Moreover, AI in it's current state is a complex black box with unpredictable outputs for given inputs, which may be chaotic - see, for example, adversarial attacks. If we want a better handle on, say, regularizing outputs in a predictable way, or at least a clearer window into the occluded complexity of neural network decision making, a whole new field may very well be warranted. There's a reason we are calling these program outputs behaviors now; it's a new type of loosely -deterministic computing until we develop a deeper understanding which will not be trivial.