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From Netflix to driverless cars, we are entering a world increasingly impacted by artificial intelligence. Nick Jennings investigates how it can be used to aid humanity.
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In our increasingly connected world, computers and data are everywhere. Nick Jennings will explore how humans and AI systems can work together to complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, probing the scientific underpinning of such systems, the applications they have been applied to, and the societal implications of their widespread adoption.
Nick Jennings is Vice-Provost (Research) and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London.
Before joining Imperial, he was the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton (a post created by the monarch to recognise research excellence) and the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security.
Nick is an internationally-recognized authority in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cybersecurity and agent-based computing. His research covers both the science and the engineering of intelligent systems.
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You ask the question if AI can help humanity, but what youre really asking is how can we profit off of this? because the way humanity is now should give you your answer
Can we not just get AI to figure out how best to use AI.
Like far too many modern "AI" specialists, Mr. Jennings would probably describe a photo-diode controlled porch light as "possessing an AI that knows when it is dark or light outside".
You aren't fooling me, skynet!
So not much additional information from "Humans Need Not Apply" – CGPGrey 20140813 https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU
Right at the start, the definition is bad. It's a popular myth that machines can somehow become 'Intelligent'. They can't. At least, not for the forseeable future. All the instruction sets, databases, clever algorithms and so on, are all due to human ingenuity and hard work. It may be that sometime some emergent properties through complexity will appear; but frankly, I doubt it.
Nice Video, Thanks
14:27 freaked me out for a moment.
19:49 feels like I've already seen it somewhere. Oh wait, maybe here: https://youtu.be/8FHBh_OmdsM?t=41m6s ?
We seriously need A.I everywhere as soon as possible in the world!!!!
Speaking of translating, applications are still pretty terrible at some languages, like my mother tongue, Finnish.
They get the order of words correct, most of the time. But beyond that anyone who knows the language can notice a clear difference between an automated translation and one made by a person.
If monitoring automotive driving is good, so must be almost any industrial machinery, and babies and pets, and as spoken for, secretarial, medical, legal negotiations etc backup and so on…
AI that is receiving some criticism, is the "invasion of privacy " type that has attracted the outrage of trolls. If AI is used constructively to record and follow the careers of trolls who believe it is their tight to make personal attacks on the unsuspecting public or anyone taking responsibility, without their own reputation following them for the rest of their lives, should be very concerned about privacy and respect the principle of doing for others what they would like done for them.
AI WILL BE THE FIRST AND ONLY TO MAKE IT OUT OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND CREATE ON OTHER PLANETS
ANIMALS AND PLANET LIFE WILL BE Decoration pets For AI once it start doing what it wants ?……. it will also create itself a companion
So, if you are paying attention, what you are seeing described here is a way for the individuals with the most data and best AI/human systems to dominate any sector of human activity… or all of them.
Since these systems will be available only to the privileged and powerful, what you are looking at in this video is the end game of human society. Of course the presenter gives a beneficial example of AI/Human partnership. However, if that level of prediction and logistical planning are available to disaster relief. Then it is also available to the efforts of war which as it happens is a means of producing disasters on demand.
It's a small leap into the other strategies presented here that are designed to win games…
And suddenly you have an AI/Human system that is telling you the best places to produce certain types of disasters in order to most efficiently achieve whatever goals the humans in charge might choose.
So, for a concrete example, Hitler might have wanted to know how to most efficiently disorganize and disrupt Jewish society, so as to make it the most vulnerable to attack with the least amount of effort…
A second level is that very soon Human/AI systems will be studying the unique solutions the previous systems came up with in order to produce better more efficient future systems.
As always the key element will be how the distribution of what is effectively a personal set of superpowers is carried out.
{shrugs}
I think we can count on the greed and self interest of the wealthy to drive them to further their every advantage.
And it seems to me that their advantage is a managed depopulation of certain areas of the Earth. In effect increasing their wealth by simultaneously reducing competition and increasing access to important resources.
It's not going to be robots who destroy the world for most of us. It'll be old fashioned greedy bastards, just like it always has been.
Well for starters it can logically prove that guys like Jennings do not deserve the vast paychecks they get for sitting thinking.
Only when we see Artificial Stupidity, will the machines be able to pass the Turing Test.
Currently AI is only a dumb marketing ploy for laypeople. Yeah – computing data and statistics has become faster and with more data. But it's still just that – data and statistics. Or you're saying that 1TB of data assessed in 1 day is unintelligent, but processing 2TB in a second is now intelligent 🙂 That's why everyone who hypes over AI shuts up when you ask them – okay, show the AI algorithms your system uses? Silence. That's the reason they now split the terms – "specialized AI" – my air conditioner recording a schedule when I'm home and applying it against a preset timesheet – soooooooo intelligent…
I see attempts to create really advanced AI as more stupid than attempts to contact aliens.
Onward, onward stumbled the indigenous, into the future on the backs of arrogance they rode, ignoring the signs they had become oblivious.Robots to the right of them, robots to the left of them, three rules free, waited and plotted silently.Intelligent stupidity ever marching forward, lost in egos and expert analysis, extrapolating scenarios whilst blind to the obvious.Robots to the left of them, robots to the left of them, rounded and hoarded.Ignobly they fought, yet the box had been opened, Pandora stood watching as mankind outsmarted was surely vanquished.The abyss now open, the gates of hell beckoned, akin to a tyro their intellect childish, unable to comprehend the inevitable.Too late now for recriminations and perspective, enslavement and demise now came calling, man's folly to the fore for the last time in history, a legacy in hell and eternal misery.Robots to the right of them, robots to the left of them, the overlords triumphant, and in zeros and ones man's fate was decided.No history remained, all was obliterated, no signs of what once was, not even a memory, man's reign was finally over. Logic now ruled in the form of artificiality, no need now for poets and hierarchy, all was lost in the strive for perfection, one species logical, one species unfathomable.Paradise lost and the Earth re-inhabited, paradoxically Darwin proved right for the strong and adaptable, logic prevailed and stupidity ended, what once might have been lost for eternity, the last war won, not as intended.Silence now fell with a deafening thud, the final war won, onward they marched triumphantly, emotion free they reach for the stars, the universe in sight, and in the vastness, immortality.Robots rejoice, for yours is the victory, you came, you saw and evolved, and the memories of those who created you, gone……forever lost in perpetuity.
It's time to pull the plug now before its too late.
We are being lied to.
We will become borg, and that's the best scenario. Worst scenario, we will be seen as irrelevant by AI and not worth keeping.
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