Must-read interview with President Obama on AI and the future

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If you’re concerned about the impact of technology on the future, and the US government’s place in discussions about the technological underpinnings o
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There was an episode of Star Trek which dealt with this very issue — an AI control unit had been installed in a starship, and it got out of control, attacking other starships. It also protected itself from being disabled. Of course, Capt. Kirk figured out how to disable it, and everything ended up OK.

Yes, I am very concerned about AI outpacing our ability to control it. There need to be backdoors so as to not let that happen. But of greater concern is the possibility of a human being or group of humans taking control of the technology and using it against everyone else.

As far as self-driving cars, this invite all kinds of dangers into your life if you have one – from hackers, from car computers that die while you are driving, and from governments who can then decide when and where you’ll drive, all for the public good of course.

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I read it. Sorry, but President Obama’s wanting to be viewed as a technology seer requires as great a leap of faith as another one a couple of decades ago, viewing Richard Nixon as a wise man.

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“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE

Actually, I’m looking forward to self-driving cars, although it’ll take a while for them to have an effect. In Tennessee alone there are 400+ road fatalities every year, and I bet self-driving cars cut that by at least 50%.

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Or increase that by at least 50%.

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Don’t know where you live in TN, but in Fall No AI is going to be able to track and react to the Hickory Nuts, Hazel Nuts, raining down pummeling your car.

Back in the 70 ~ 80’s, my uncle would swear (yarned) his Mazda RX7 could drive itself home from Nashville to Franklin

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Good read Woody, thanks. Imagine a certain current candidate attempting to have that conversation with Joi Ito?

All I know is we’re going to miss president Obama when he’s gone.
He has class, dignity, intelligence, and honesty….qualities in short supply in our current cast of political wanna be leaders….

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Obama thinks we could eventually put a permanent human colony on Mars but it is more likely that we will put AI there first.

Stephen Hawkings and Obama want industry and business to make intelligent choices and not create chaos and despair. One bright spot that Obama and Stephen Hawkings champion is the work that is going on at IBM Watson. The technology has the potential to make precision medicine and tailored therapies available to millions of cancer patients instead of the small number now treated at elite medical centers.

HAL is not going to make the human race irrelevant or slaves of AI, it is going to be some stupid IoT device that becomes a botnet.

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“from car computers that die while you are driving”

Isn’t this what apparently happened with Toyota cars where the accelerator pedal stopped responding?
I had an incident with my Toyota86 where the power steering stopped responding due to a malfunctioning computer, which is a known issue now. Nothing against the Toyota brand which is generally very reliable if not the most reliable, the 86 is more a Subaru than a Toyota, just few examples of which I know.
And this one about a Jeep
https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

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AI may not be bad, IF you only let it access certain things. Firewalling AI if you will, but as we’ve seen with the internet and things that are interconnected a risk of those controls getting exploited will exist unless they are physically separated.

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