hthth.typepad.com — Many people truly fear the idea of intelligent machines. I've often wondered: exactly how many share this feeling? I've created a poll for that question, and submit it here to Digg, hoping that YOU will want to see the question answered too. Let's collaborate, get this to the front page and make it industry news: How many fear intelligent machines?
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hththApr 19, 2007Submitter
Yeah, I agree up to a point. Privacy concerns are important (e.g. will machine vision be used to profile you on the streets and watch the way you shop?), war applications are another. I'm still uncertain whether robotic soldiers will actually decrease casualties (ie. robots will be doing the fighting). Or if it doesn't matter in the end as when the robots have been destroyed, the humans will start fighting again?In any case, while we certainly need to be careful, like we (try to) do with nuclear power, I still think the upsides of more intelligent machines (ie. solving more complex problems faster than we can, inventing new medicine, doing surgical operations) outweigh the potential dangers.
yornApr 19, 2007
Why do people use terms like "artificial intelligence" when we already have that? Being bright and able to perform a task is one thing, being able to identify a problem, acknowledge its existence, and then take steps to fix it is another. We need to quit calling this stuff AI and start calling it AR or artificial reasoning. Once we have machines actually capable of reasoning, we'll have what everyone (at least on Digg) is calling today.Note: I'm aware of the scientist's calling it strong and weak AI, but that doesn't seem like enough of a differentiation between the two.
Closed AccountApr 19, 2007
So, let me ask you this, all of you who voted yes: Should we be making our machines dumber instead?
xaxxonApr 19, 2007
How many people fear the realization that THEY are simply intelligent machines?There's no such thing as an "intelligent machine" in the classical sense of intelligent. All they can do is what they are programmed to do. They can just look more and more like people until the line blurs. Where's your god going to be then?
agentandersonApr 20, 2007
After seeing the Matrix films, I fear intelligent machines creating a situation where Keanu Reeves is our only hope.
dudadApr 20, 2007
The one with the pink bouquet frightens me. Especially when thinking about how demented its creators must have been.
ronnie4evaApr 20, 2007
OMG BATTLESTAR GALLATICA
theantirobotApr 20, 2007
I am happily optimistic and amazed with what humans will achieve with intelligent machines.
yahoofromApr 20, 2007
Isn't it a racism to fear conscious intelligent beings with metal skin?