{"id":18518,"date":"2015-10-17T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T22:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/programming-hate-into-ai-will-be-controversial-but-possibly-necessary"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:30:35","slug":"programming-hate-into-ai-will-be-controversial-but-possibly-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/programming-hate-into-ai-will-be-controversial-but-possibly-necessary","title":{"rendered":"Programming Hate Into AI Will Be Controversial, But Possibly Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programming-hate-into-ai-will-be-controversial-but-possibly-necessary.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I hear people discussing AI at parties, coffee shops and even at the dinner table: My five-year-old daughter brought it up the other night over taco lasagna. When I asked her if anything interesting had happened in school, she replied that her teacher discussed smart robots.<\/p>\n<p>The exploration of intelligence \u2014 be it human or artificial \u2014 is ultimately the domain of epistemology, the study of knowledge. Since the first musings of creating AI back in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_artificial_intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow\">antiquity<\/a>, epistemology seems to have led the debate on how to do it. The question I hear most in this field from the public is: How can humans develop another intelligent consciousness if we can\u2019t even understand our own?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a prudent question. The human brain, despite being only about 3 pounds in weight, is the least understood organ in the body. And with a billion neurons \u2014 with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/100-trillion-connections\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">100 trillion<\/a> connections \u2014 it\u2019s safe to say it\u2019s going to be a long time before we end up figuring out the brain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/10\/17\/programming-hate-into-ai-will-be-controversial-but-possibly-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I hear people discussing AI at parties, coffee shops and even at the dinner table: My five-year-old daughter brought it up the other night over taco [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63907,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions\/63907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}