The Biggest Threat To Artificial Intelligence: Human Stupidity

[HardOCP News]

According to this article, the biggest threat to artificial intelligence is human stupidity. Really Sherlock? Hell, the biggest threat to self-driving cars right now is cars driven by humans. Why do you think AI is going to take over the world and kill us all as soon as possible?

But perhaps more dangerous is the assumption that we treat AI as a magical, mystical source of truth. As the introduction to our special report makes clear, the output of the algorithm is only ever as good as the data put in, or the rules that humans set. The black box nature of algorithms that can learn and evolve in ways their human developers find hard to follow should not mean that their answers be accepted without question. Rather, ways must be found to make sure that AI-led decision making becomes as easy to understand -- and to challenge -- as any other type. Some researchers have set out ideas around how this can be done using factors such as responsibility, explainability, accuracy, auditability and fairness, and more work is needed here.

 

[Darunion]

Is that not the threat to anything? Or is there something to be gained from it somewhere?

 

[Armenius]

Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[amddragonpc]

"Today's AI is helping companies to improve customer services or fine tune their decision-making by spotting trends in data that would otherwise be invisible, and helping them automate mundane tasks, or even create whole new services."

Really? This statement would have been credible if the writer had given examples of these companies.

 

[AK0tA]

A society that could possibly vote for a killary clinton is a society dangerous to it's own existence. I welcome our new AI overlords.

 

[Dead Parrot]

The big problem with creating AI is we don't really understand how humans learn stuff or how our brains really work. Kinda hard to program something that is largely undefined. Self driving cars provide some example of this. Sure you can program in the exact legal rules of the road but that isn't how most driving is really done. Traffic flow speed instead of strict legal limit, rolling the right turn on red instead of stop behind line, pause, creep forward, pause, go. Now explain how we humans learned these unofficial but well practiced procedures.

 

[Twisted Kidney]

Garbage in, garbage out.

Probably the most important words in technology.

 

[Tsumi]

"Today's AI is helping companies to improve customer services or fine tune their decision-making by spotting trends in data that would otherwise be invisible, and helping them automate mundane tasks, or even create whole new services."

Really? This statement would have been credible if the writer had given examples of these companies.

The "AI" is simply able to process more data simultaneously, and attempt data comparisons more rapidly without getting bored. There was an article not too long ago where Watson, the IBM "AI," was able to correctly diagnose a rare illness that doctor's weren't able to for months. This is simply because a computer is able to compare and access much more information than a human can, and it does not have the pride that humans have.

 

[knowom]

I disagree the biggest threat to AI is human "intent" though stupidity is probably a close second the wrong line or two of code could have disastrous effects.

 

[M76]

I disagree the biggest threat to AI is human "intent" though stupidity is probably a close second the wrong line or two of code could have disastrous effects.

Intent can be motivated by stupidity. So stupidity is a pretty accurate description.

And actually it's not just a threat to AI, but a threat to humanity trough AI. An AI will only turn on humans if it is programmed to do that.

 

[Iceberg Mays]

A society that could possibly vote for a killary clinton is a society dangerous to it's own existence. I welcome our new AI overlords.

This is the problem... what does politics have to do with the discussion at hand???