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OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.
From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:17:15 +0000
Google has always played fast and loose with its AI claims, but today t has gone too far. In a WSJ story, Google is misleading people into thinking it has achieved emotion, if not outright consciousness, in its AI programming: http://slashdot.org/submission/4569873/wsj-jumps-the-shark-with-ai-gets-testy-story Google claims one of its computer programs using a database of movie scripts to answer questions supposedly "lashed out" at a human researcher who was repeatedly asking it to explain morality. Don't computer scientists have a responsibility to deal forthrightly with the public on the real state of research in such fields as AI? When an Internet provider like Google makes such outlandish claims, one has to wonder what the real agenda is. -mel beckman
Current thread:
- OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Mel Beckman (Jun 28)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Christopher Morrow (Jun 28)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Mel Beckman (Jun 28)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. ryanL (Jun 28)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Randy Bush (Jun 29)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Mel Beckman (Jun 28)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Jon Lewis (Jun 29)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. John Levine (Jun 30)
- Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype. Christopher Morrow (Jun 28)