Saturday, October 10, 2015

9 October 2015
By Andrew Griffith

AI (click here) is likely to be ‘either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity,’ Hawking said, ‘so there's huge value in getting it right’ 

Stephen Hawking has warned that artificially intelligent machines could kill us because they are too clever.

Such computers could become so competent that they kill us by accident, Hawking has warned in his first Ask Me Anything session on Reddit.

A questioner noted that Professor Hawking’s ideas about artificial intelligence are seen as “a belief in Terminator-style ‘Evil AI’”, and asked how he would present his own beliefs.

“The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence,” Professor Hawking said. “A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we're in trouble....

Stanford University Online Artificial Intelligence (click here for the lab)

8 October 2015
By Andrew Griffin

Scientists (click here) have built an artificial intelligence system that has performed as well as in intelligence tests as a young child....