From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 14:29:49 MDT
I would like the interested parties to present a rebutall of the thesis
developed over the last four days on AI-ARMS-RACE@yahoogroups.com that
machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence NOW if state-of-the-art
hardware and software are used by the machine and its intelligent
performance is rated according to the generally accepted definitions of
psychologists and educators.
POC
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Amara D. Angelica wrote:
> http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D1191
>
> 'Cute' robots could take over, warns ABC Nightline
>
> ABC Nightline, August 19, 2002
>
> With robots getting cuter, like MIT's Kismet and Sony's Aibo puppy, and
> people playing less with real people and more with fake ones, "one day,
> adorable robots could do us great harm and we are not ready," warned ABC
> science correspondent Robert Krowlich on Nightline tonight, August 19.
>
> "The people designing these little devices are very, very cunning and
> exploiting psychology for all they're worth, with faces with winning grins
> and eyes that they can bat at you," said New School For Social Research
> psychology professor Nicholas Humphrey.
>
> "It's increasingly difficult not to treat these machines as people. They
> will have their own interests "independent of those that made them, and
> there will be ways in which the robots will basically get us to do their
> work for them ... by getting people to form relationships with them to love
> them.
>
> "If one day, they wish to do us harm, we will not be able to resist, because
> if they assume the form of adorable bunnies or puppies or an adorable human
> infant, we will embrace them."
>
> "We will have to be very clever about how smart we allow them to be or they
> will succeed humans as the next species running the earth," warned Stephen
> Petranek, Editor in Chief of Discover magazine.
>
> "We'll probably never see it coming," added Sim City game developer Will
> Wright, whose cute Sim City and The Sims computer games have already become
> highly addictive with some players.
>
> However, artificial intelligence has been a tremendous failure, Petranek
> claimed. "Robots are really stupid. We've been working on artificial
> intelligence energetically for about 30 years and now you couldn't find ten
> people in the world who are working on AI any more because nobody has been
> able to get very close in trying to mimic the human brain."
>
>
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