There is a blind spot in AI research
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There is a blind spot in AI research
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Re: There is a blind spot in AI research
#2Key quote:
“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.”
-- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
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#3This is another angle of the "Weapons of Math Destruction" argument, and it looks very relevant. Those who work on big data (esp. public sector) would be wise to consider the implications.
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#4The problem is the AI community is treating itself like non-experts. Explaining that AI needs to be controlled by telling horror stories of robot domination is good to motivate research work to lay people, but is a distraction for professionals.
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#5Systematic analysis of AI biases is certainly needed. We train models on data, but how is the data collected, and how biased is it? At least in AI we can compensate for biases, but in human society they are much harder to counter. There's hope for a better future if we can make fair AI.
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#6Key quote: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” -- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
I think this is rooted in the fact that humans don't really do intelligence all that well themselves. Most of us raise kids in a manner that assumes chuldren aren't independent thinking beings and we have a lot of social "rules" that fail to take into account actual independent thought and then humans bring these big blind spots to AI work.
Until we overcome such issues in humans, they probably are not solvable in AI.
Re: There is a blind spot in AI research
#7Key quote: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” -- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
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#8Key quote: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” -- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
I think this is rooted in the fact that humans don't really do intelligence all that well themselves. Most of us raise kids in a manner that assumes chuldren aren't independent thinking beings and we have a lot of social "rules" that fail to take into account actual independent thought and then humans bring these big blind spots to AI work. Until we overcome such issues in humans, they probably are not solvable in AI…
If you're going to go down that path then your entire argument is moot because the definition of "intelligence" is so unclear.
Re: There is a blind spot in AI research
#9Key quote: “People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they’re too stupid and they’ve already taken over the world.” -- Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm (2015)
It's an entertaining quote, I laughed, but I think everyone who works in AI already knows this. It's not a blind spot.
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#10The problem is the AI community is treating itself like non-experts. Explaining that AI needs to be controlled by telling horror stories of robot domination is good to motivate research work to lay people, but is a distraction for professionals.
So the "robots are going to kill us" meme is good because it makes "the rest of us" interested in the idea of AI?