Posted on Apr 5, 2016
Alexa, Cortana, and Siri Aren’t Novelties Anymore. They’re Our Terrifyingly Convenient Future.
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Do you find it disconcerting that AI is becoming more commonplace?
An interesting article about Devices that are more and more common place, and how they are always gathering data. Big Brother is watching you?
An interesting article about Devices that are more and more common place, and how they are always gathering data. Big Brother is watching you?
Alexa, Cortana, and Siri Aren’t Novelties Anymore. They’re Our Terrifyingly Convenient Future.
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Information Technology Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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I find it very disconcerting, add this with "big data" and other projects computer can manipulate us easily. you wana see a real test gone bad with this look at Microsoft latest blunder is this arena.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/microsoft-tay-racist-tweets_us_56f3e678e4b04c4c37615502
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/microsoft-tay-racist-tweets_us_56f3e678e4b04c4c37615502
Microsoft Chat Bot Goes On Racist, Genocidal Twitter Rampage
Seriously? Seriously.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
SSG Ed Mikus Holy shitballs batman! Talk about escalating things quickly. That is very scary. I love how Microsoft is playing it off as "Tay just learned that from internet trolls" That is does not give me warm and fuzzy feelings. So in the future, my car may rundown an old woman because I make the mistake of saying "I hate snowbirds screwing up traffic in the morning" No thanks.
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PO3 Rick Kundiger
Spot on Steven. The problem is that we don't know what the AI will do once released. Sure, that bot may have learned that behavior from trolls, but the world is full of trolls and since we don't know how to code "humanity" into an AI it will do what it learns, and that could be bad, depending on its inputs.
So, while MSFT is playing it off, it is actually a very good use case for what can happen when we play in the AI sandbox without knowing what we are doing.
That being said, I am not opposed to AI. It is an inevitability. I think that it could be very helpful. Unless immature code is released, such as this bot, and it learns the wrong things and horrible unintended consequences occur.
We must be /very/ careful with AI going forward.
So, while MSFT is playing it off, it is actually a very good use case for what can happen when we play in the AI sandbox without knowing what we are doing.
That being said, I am not opposed to AI. It is an inevitability. I think that it could be very helpful. Unless immature code is released, such as this bot, and it learns the wrong things and horrible unintended consequences occur.
We must be /very/ careful with AI going forward.
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At first I thought this was a question about the presidential election candidate field! LOL
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
TSgt David L. it may very well become a political issue, but for right now it is not.
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