Re: A geewhiz article about AI in the NYTimes...


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Posted by Anthony Bucci on July 18, 2006 at 13:09:30:

In Reply to: Re: A geewhiz article about AI in the NYTimes... posted by Paul Chiusano on July 18, 2006 at 11:25:17:

This jumped out at me:

"An electronic butler that could hold a conversation with its master."

People can say things like that with a straight face?

Owner: Hey iJeeves, what's up? The carpet's dirty.
iJeeves: How does "the carpet's dirty" make you feel?
...

Gripes about over-claimed natural language understanding systems aside,
perhaps the "AI as ethical slave" angle here is more disturbing. I still
think the ethical definition of AI stands: it's not AI until you feel bad
about telling it what to do.

A


On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, DEMO Lab's WWWBoard MSG 3186 wrote:

> Posted by Paul Chiusano (pchiusano@cs.brandeis.edu) on July 18, 2006 at
> 11:25:17.
>
>
> What I love about these articles is when journalists use phrases like
> "scientists say that...", as if scientists are members of a little
> club of people that regularly gets together to make unified
> pronouncements about things.
>
> On 7/18/06, DEMO Lab's WWWBoard MSG 3080 wrote:
> > Posted by Shivakumar Viswanathan (shiva@cs.brandeis.edu) on July 18, 2006
> at
> > 07:42:30.
> >
> >
> >
> > ...though without a single word about ALife, EC or
> > bottom-up AI :(
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Brainy Robots Start Stepping Into Daily Life
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > "Robot cars drive themselves across the desert, electronic eyes perform
> > lifeguard duty in swimming pools and virtual enemies with humanlike
> > behavior battle video game players.
> >
> > These are some fruits of the research field known as artificial
> > intelligence, where reality is finally catching up to the science-fiction
> > hype. A half-century after the term was coined, both scientists and
> > engineers say they are making rapid progress in simulating the human
> > brain, and their work is finding its way into a new wave of real-world
> > products...."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > :shiva
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/technology/18brain.html?hp&ex=1153281600&en=c
> > b70ee5fcde95dea&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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