Artificial intelligence (AI) is a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
WHAT ARE THE FOUR TYPES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
- Reactive Machines
- Limited Memory
- Theory of Mind
- Self-Awareness
WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
- Siri, Alexa and other smart assistants
- Self-driving cars
- Robo-advisors
- Conversational bots
- Email spam filters
- Netflix's recommendations
In the near Term, the Goal of Keeping Ai’s Impact on Society Beneficial Motivates Research in Many Areas, from Economics and Law to Technical Topics Such as Verification, Validity, Security and Control. Whereas It May Be a Little More than a Minor Nuisance If Your Laptop Crashes or Gets Hacked, It Becomes All the More Important That an Ai System Does What You Want It to Do If It Controls Your Car, Your Airplane, Your Pacemaker, Your Automated Trading System or Your Power Grid. Another Short-term Challenge Is Preventing a Devastating Arms Race in Lethal Autonomous Weapons. In the Long Term, an Important Question Is What Will Happen If the Quest for Strong Ai Succeeds and an Ai System Becomes Better than Humans at All Cognitive Tasks. As Pointed out by I.J. Good in 1965, Designing Smarter Ai Systems Is Itself a Cognitive Task. Such a System Could Potentially Undergo Recursive Self-improvement, Triggering an Intelligence Explosion Leaving Human Intellect Far Behind. By Inventing Revolutionary New Technologies, Such a Superintelligence Might Help Us Eradicate War, Disease, and Poverty, and so the Creation of Strong Ai Might Be the Biggest Event in Human History. Some Experts Have Expressed Concern, Though, That It Might Also Be the Last, Unless We Learn to Align the Goals of the Ai with Ours Before It Becomes Superintelligent. There Are Some Who Question Whether Strong Ai Will Ever Be Achieved, and Others Who Insist That the Creation of Superintelligent Ai Is Guaranteed to Be Beneficial. At Fli We Recognize Both of These Possibilities, but Also Recognize the Potential for an Artificial Intelligence System to Intentionally or Unintentionally Cause Great Harm. We Believe Research Today Will Help Us Better Prepare for and Prevent Such Potentially Negative Consequences in the Future, Thus Enjoying the Benefits of Ai While Avoiding Pitfalls.
How to Understand a Human
Russell’s thesis came to him as an epiphany, that sublime act of intelligence. It was 2014 and he was in Paris on sabbatical from Berkeley, heading to rehearsal for a choir he had joined as a tenor. “Because I’m not a very good musician, I was always having to learn my music on the metro on the way to rehearsal,” he recalled recently. Samuel Barber’s 1967 choral arrangement Agnus Dei filled his headphones as he shot beneath the City of Light. “It was such a beautiful piece of music,” he said. “It just sprang into my mind that what matters, and therefore what the purpose of AI was, was in some sense the aggregate quality of human experience.” Robots shouldn’t try to achieve goals like maximizing viewing time or paper clips, he realized; they should simply try to improve our lives. There was just one question: “If the obligation of machines is to try to optimize that aggregate quality of human experience, how on earth would they know what that was?”
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