{"id":23031,"date":"2016-03-02T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/artificial-intelligence-risk-12-researchers-weigh-in-on-the-dangers-of-smarter-machines"},"modified":"2016-03-03T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T08:11:16","slug":"artificial-intelligence-risk-12-researchers-weigh-in-on-the-dangers-of-smarter-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/artificial-intelligence-risk-12-researchers-weigh-in-on-the-dangers-of-smarter-machines","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Risk \u2014 12 Researchers Weigh in on the Danger\u2019s of Smarter Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A realistic article on AI \u2014 especially around AI being manipulated by others for their own gain which I have also identified as the real risks with AI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI), once the seeming red-headed stepchild of the scientific community, has come a long way in the past two decades. Most of us have reconciled with the fact that we can\u2019t live without our smartphones and Siri, and AI\u2019s seemingly omnipotent nature has infiltrated the nearest and farthest corners of our lives, from robo-advisors on Wall Street and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/security-cameras-use-artificial-intelligence-to-detect-crime-2015-8\" target=\"_hplink\"> crime-spotting security cameras<\/a>, to big data analysis by Google\u2019s BigQuery and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/big-data\/au\/en\/big-data-and-analytics\/watson-foundations.html\" target=\"_hplink\"> Watson\u2019s entry<\/a> into diagnostics in the medical field.<\/p>\n<p>In many unforeseen ways, AI is helping to improve and make our lives more efficient, though the reverse degeneration of human economic and cultural structures is also a potential reality. The <a href=\"http:\/\/futureoflife.org\/ai-activities\/\" target=\"_hplink\"> Future of Life Institute<\/a>\u2019s tagline sums it up in succinct fashion: \u201cTechnology is giving life the potential to flourish like never before\u2026or to self-destruct.\u201d Humans are the creators, but will we always have control of our revolutionary inventions?<\/p>\n<p>To much of the general public, AI is AI is AI, but this is only part truth. Today, there are two primary strands of AI development \u2014 ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). ANI is often termed \u201cweak AI\u201d and is \u201cthe expert\u201d of the pair, using its intelligence to perform specific functions. Most of the technology with which we surround ourselves (including Siri) falls into the ANI bucket. AGI is the next generation of ANI, and it\u2019s the type of AI behind dreams of building a machine that achieves human levels of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/daniel-faggella\/artificial-intelligence-r_b_9344088.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/daniel-faggella\/artificial-int...44088.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A realistic article on AI \u2014 especially around AI being manipulated by others for their own gain which I have also identified as the real risks with AI. Artificial intelligence (AI), once the seeming red-headed stepchild of the scientific community, has come a long way in the past two decades. Most of us have reconciled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1512,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}