(cont'd from yesterday's post)
"Is AI [artificial intelligence] evil?" Oren Etzioni devoted his career to studying AI and says this question is "very much on my mind." He explains his answer in this TEDx talk.
The nature of AI must be understood more accurately than as a creepy robot character in movies. He says that his 6-year-old son is more autonomous than any AI system. The boy has free will and real creativity, a consciousness that recognizes itself.
All of that is missing in AI today. Our AI systems have a narrow intelligence that finds and organizes information for us, like Semantic Scholar. He thinks a program could be built that prevents medical errors, which cause one-third of hospital deaths.
But . . could AI eventually develop a true consciousness? An independent, threatening free will? That's AGI - artificial general intelligence - and a subject for a different post.
(cont'd on Monday)
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