Should You Trust Your Computer?

Published: April 10, 2018, 2:30 a.m.

b"Phil and Stephen discuss the new film by Chris Paine, director of \\u201cWho Killed the Electric Car?\\u201d\\n\\nDo You Trust This Computer?\\n\\ndoyoutrustthiscomputer.org\\n\\nThis new documentary about the dangers and benefits of artificial intelligence (mostly the dangers) covers some serious subjects:\\n\\nAI and weapons\\n\\nTechnology and Privacy issues\\n\\nEmergence of superintelligence\\n\\nComputers taking over\\n\\nA great lineup of AI luminaries discuss some pretty grim scenarios for how our AI-driven future might turn out. Phil contrasts the tone of the film with a recent essay by another big name in AI, Kai Fu Lee:\\n\\nWe are here to create\\n\\ngoo.gl/G48v8h\\n\\nAll the dystopian talk is just nonsense. It\\u2019s too much imagination. We\\u2019re seeing AI going into new applications in what appears to be an exponential growth, but it's an exponential growth of applications of the mature technologies that exist. That growth will be over once we develop all of them. Then we have to wait for more breakthroughs for further advancement of AI. But you cannot predict further advancements.\\n\\nWho is right? And if Kai is wrong, what do we do about this?\\n\\nThe film suggests \\u201cregulation\\u201d at the end, but there are big problems making that work.\\n\\nThe surprising answer may be that we should NOT trust our computers and therefore we MUST push on with Artificial Intelligence research. Strange as that may seem.\\n\\nWT 424-737"