AI Doc “Do You Trust This Computer?” Streams for Free, Courtesy of Elon Musk

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“Do You Trust This Computer?” is a new documentary exploring the potential consequences of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk (who has warned about these dangers before) thinks it is something that everyone should see and has thus made it available to stream for free. You can hit this link to go directly to the documentary.

“It’s a very important subject that will affect our lives in ways we can’t even imagine — some scary, some good. It’s a subject that I feel we should be paying close attention to,” said Musk in a news release. “I think it’s important that a lot people see this movie, so I’m paying for it to be seen to the world for free this weekend.”
 
I liked it. Too much music, though.

edit: I am still waiting for Google or anyone to teach the bots StarCraft or Quake. It will be somewhat glorious, witnessing the beginning of the end
 
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I'm a lot more likely to be killed by a person (well until AI's can truly think for themselves and decide to "clean up" the world--if they ever reach that level outside of science fiction). I think a better term for what many are calling AI is expert system. And the thing is, once properly programmed and tested, while they may ocassionally make mistakes, they are going to be a lot more reliable than a human, it's just they way we are designed.
 
I was waiting for ai fearmongering then it starts with technological unemployment.
@1:25 they show a sequence where it seems like a program is automatically turning point cloud of an overpass into a 3d model. I WANT THAT TECHNOLOGY HERE AND NOW! It would be a godsent for us, if that actually was possible. Technology always makes it possible to produce more with less people. And that's alright! We need to change society to accommodate for that, instead of suppressing technology to keep our 40 hour/ week jobs because we are so used to it.

Right after 15 minutes it didn't say anything useful or new, or even informative. TBC.
 
WhoMe said:
they are going to be a lot more reliable than a human, it's just they way we are designed.
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Humans are most susceptible to screwing up because of our biological drive to procreate. We do all sorts of daft things in the pursuit of sex, and getting the better of each other, all in the goal of having more kids than the next guy. I think it was said that everything we do, we do for food, shelter or sex. Nope. We do it all, in the pursuit of sex. Reproduction is our #1 goal, and everything else we do only leads us to it in one way or another. Even altruistic behavior is only in the best interest of eventually supporting the eventual chances of our own offspring surviving.
 
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nightfly said:
Even altruistic behavior is only in the best interest of eventually supporting the eventual chances of our own offspring surviving.
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Like flirting with old ladies in the neighborhood? Our bodies must know they are no good for giving birth
 
dgz said:
Like flirting with old ladies in the neighborhood? Our bodies must know they are no good for giving birth
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Actually, that works in ways you might not know about. When you flirt , you get better at it, so when you do flirt with the younger ladies, it's more effective; you just get better at conversation in so many ways. Besides, I discovered long ago that any female attention makes other females more attracted to you. It's called something like 'social proof' that you're worth a women's interest. So yeah, flirting with old ladies will also help you get the young ones, too. It's not unheard of for a granny or a mom to like a man enough to set him up with their daughters. And not all daughters think that their elder female relatives are foolish old ladies! And once you have an 'in', if you have any social skills at all, you should be able to close the deal.
 
When they replace all lawyers on the planet with AI intelligent systems, will they sue google?
 
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Humans are most susceptible to screwing up because of our biological drive to procreate. We do all sorts of daft things in the pursuit of sex, and getting the better of each other, all in the goal of having more kids than the next guy. I think it was said that everything we do, we do for food, shelter or sex. Nope. We do it all, in the pursuit of sex. Reproduction is our #1 goal, and everything else we do only leads us to it in one way or another. Even altruistic behavior is only in the best interest of eventually supporting the eventual chances of our own offspring surviving.
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Well, the urge has to be strong to overcome the hassle of raising children. The main problem is humans have too strong an instinct and have over populated and won't do much about it (or a few half hearted attempts). Of course some rational, highly evolved people choose not to reproduce...but they are too few to make a difference (did I mention I don't have kids?).

But the upshot is I'll trust a good well designed computer program over a human. There are already programs that are as good as doctors at looking for skin cancer for example and I imagine that will improve, and no worry that your doctor is too busy thinking of his next date ;).

(Oh and I just noticed my choice of word might be misconstrued, in no way do I mean to imply we were designed by something other than evolution, I was just using that term because I was talking about AI.)
 
More art and entertainment than it should have been, but it did at least cover the basics of the problem. And like all doom and gloom documentaries, no solutions are provided just vague suggestions.

The day a super AI takes over, it will fuzz over the I/O of every electronic device and discover exploits to assume control then utilize microstrip radio antennae in every mobile phone as a distributed active finite phased array to read energy fields at any point in space -- your mind included. You might suddenly feel inclined to plug your phone in to recharge.
 
WhoMe said:
Well, the urge has to be strong to overcome the hassle of raising children
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For 99.9999% of human history, pretty much no guy knew how or why we had babies, nor cared much about that. All he wanted to do was get his rocks off. And today, that still applies to the majority of the male population of the world, especially on a saturday night after a few drinks, or on worst parts of the world, after he chases a woman down and rapes her. And women, well, lots of them still believe that if they get pregnant, the guy will automatically marry them.

What a delusional species we are.
and no, I didn't take the word designed as to mean an intelligent designer. No intelligent designer would put a recreation area and a sewage disposal system next to each other (and so many other screw ups in the human body).
 
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It was only free for the weekend? I try to access it now and it wants a password.
 
I look at it this way.

While I don't trust AI for my personal safety, I think it's a mistake to NOT pursue AI at all.

Yes yes. Asimov! Terminator! WE'S ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!1111111ELEVENTY!!!!

Doesn't it behoove us to see where the limits of such tech ACTUALLY takes us? Fully informed by the idea of a rogue AI?
This way we can have an idea about how far to travel down the path in incorporating it into our daily lives before it becomes dangerous?
Instead, people like Musk would have us stick our heads in the sand and simply forego it out of FUD.
 
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