{"id":23506,"date":"2016-03-14T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/everything-you-know-about-artificial-intelligence-is-wrong"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:41:12","slug":"everything-you-know-about-artificial-intelligence-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/everything-you-know-about-artificial-intelligence-is-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google\u2019s AlphaGo has won two of the first three games<\/a> against grandmaster Lee Sedol in a Go tournament, showing the dramatic extent to which AI has improved over the years. That fateful day when machines finally become smarter than humans has never appeared closer\u2014yet we seem no closer in grasping the implications of this epochal event.<\/p>\n

Indeed, we\u2019re clinging to some serious\u2014and even dangerous\u2014misconceptions about artificial intelligence. Late last year, SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk warned that AI could take over the world<\/a>, sparking a flurry of commentary both in condemnation and support. For such a monumental future event, there\u2019s a startling amount of disagreement about whether or not it\u2019ll even happen, or what form it will take. This is particularly troubling when we consider the tremendous benefits to be had from AI, and the possible risks. Unlike any other human invention, AI has the potential to reshape humanity, but it could also destroy us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to know what to believe. But thanks to the pioneering work of computational scientists, neuroscientists, and AI theorists, a clearer picture is starting to emerge. Here are the most common misconceptions and myths about AI.<\/p>\n

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Or not. It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google\u2019s AlphaGo has won two of the first three games against grandmaster Lee Sedol in a Go tournament, showing the dramatic extent to which AI has improved over the years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62411,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506\/revisions\/62411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}