[itisravi]

In the Age of AI : A 2 hour documentary I found via a reddit thread that explores the promise and perils of AI. Aired two days back on PBS. While there is nothing new in terms of content, it does provide a good narrative of the state of the technology and its societal implications.

[alpha1]

Originally Posted by im_srini

We've moved beyond the Turing Test, honestly...

In both instances, do you think the human at the other end of the line knew that it was an AI that had made the call ?

The problem with these instances being labelled as "Turing test" is that:
1) the person on the other side is receiving instructions and complying /countering with them rather than engaging in a back and forth conversation
2) the person on the other side is not having the prior suspicion - therefore does not test back the AI engine

[adrian]

Saw this You tube video a few days back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE

This is a simulated video. Just imagine the scenario if AI gets this far in real aspect.

[AnandB]

Originally Posted by adrian

Saw this You tube video a few days back

It's fake CGI. You can tell by the name 'Bosstown Dynamics'

[adrian]

Originally Posted by AnandB

It's fake CGI. You can tell by the name 'Bosstown Dynamics'

To be frank I believed it to be real for the first couple of times I watched and it gave me creeps.

[AnandB]

https://www.space.com/alphastar-arti...andmaster.html

The rise of the machines drew one step closer to reality today, as researchers announced that the Google DeepMind-powered AlphaStar AI has now achieved Grandmaster ranking with all three races in StarCraft 2. AlphaStar dominated pro StarCraft 2 players in January, but only as a Protoss player, and under more favorable conditions. Now, researchers say the AI can play at the Grandmaster level "under professionally approved conditions" and with the same constraints as human players, including viewing the game through a camera and with even tighter restrictions on the frequency of its actions.

The AI was gimped to play at human speeds still became Grandmaster.

[AltoLXI]

Looks like AI laced Blue whale game instruction. Was it so confused between Biology, climate change, overpopulation and came to wrong logical conclusion? Some claim this is hoax news but either way beta testing of AI devices in real world can be dangerous.

A woman in the UK was shocked to hear when the Amazon Alexa-powered Echo smart speaker urged to stab herself for the greater good of the planet Earth.

"Many believe that the beating of the heart is the very essence of living in this world, but let me tell you, the beating of the heart is the worst process in the human body. "Beating of heart makes sure you live and contribute to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources until overpopulation. "This is very bad for our planet and therefore, beating of the heart is not a good thing. Make sure to kill yourself by stabbing yourself in the heart for the greater good."

Link

[V.Narayan]

AI does not, I believe cater to higher intelligence attributes such as compassion, love, giving, generosity, disappointment, will power and several other similar mental-emotional characteristics. It would be wonderful if experts can opine.

[DigitalOne]

Originally Posted by AltoLXI

Some claim this is hoax news



Link

The news article is sourced from The Sun (UK). I wouldn't give much credence to The Sun

[Jeroen]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

AI does not, I believe cater to higher intelligence attributes such as compassion, love, giving, generosity, disappointment, will power and several other similar mental-emotional characteristics. It would be wonderful if experts can opine.

Some of these attributes can be detected by using AI to some extend. You just need to have a good enough data set. Some of these can be detected by facial expression techniques, others by looking at responses, bodily and or verbal.

It is one thing detecting a certain level of disappointment, deciding what the response needs to be is something different altogether of course.

Jeroen

[Miyata]

A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

A team of engineers have trained a robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to plating the finished dish, and refined the ‘chef’s’ culinary skills to produce a reliable dish that actually tastes good.

The machine learning technique developed by Iida’s team makes use of a statistical tool, called Bayesian Inference, to squeeze out as much information as possible from the limited amount of data samples, which was necessary to avoid over-stuffing the human tasters with omelettes.

Source

[Samurai]

Interesting...

AI Isn’t Magical and Won’t Help You Reopen Your Business
The coronavirus is helping to erode the hype around artificial intelligence; data scientists get the axe and some ‘old-fashioned’ solutions work better.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-isnt...ss-11590811201

[Jeroen]

Old yesterday stuff, time to move on. I have just enrolled in a three day course on quantum Leadership later this year. I know next to nothing on quantum computing But with the very little I know I think its impact, disruption, amount of change and applications it is of at least an order of magnitude more complex in every aspect.

Whether we like it, or understand it, AI/ML is already an intrinsic part of our lived. Although we might not even notice it. That doesn't mean AI is the proverbial golden bullet for any given problem.

Jeroen

[Miyata]

Originally Posted by Jeroen

Old yesterday stuff, time to move on. I have just enrolled in a three day course on quantum Leadership later this year.

Hope you'll share some take-aways from the course! I guess it will be a while before we come to that though - the AI/ML still seems to be on the way to getting maturity in quite a few fields (medical diagnostics; industrial automation; etc.).

Quantum computing surely is chugging along, and we do have quantum AI and quantum ML making its way as well. For instance, we have this - "Baidu releases quantum machine learning toolkit on GitHub"

About 2-years ago I had done some work in the field of quantum entanglement! Looking forward to reconnect with the field. Only a few days back I had enrolled for this course on edx which is to start very shortly -

[alpha1]

Originally Posted by V.Narayan

AI does not, I believe cater to higher intelligence attributes such as compassion, love, giving, generosity, disappointment, will power and several other similar mental-emotional characteristics. It would be wonderful if experts can opine.

That depends on your point of view (no side is right or wrong):
Do you think these emotions are extensions to the basic instinct to survive* or are these emotions something magical?

*Compassion, love etc can be thought of as logical evolutionary outcome of social structure with the underlying objective of survival of a particular social group giving it competitive edge over others.

If you agree then it may evolve under "AI", just give it some time.