otipêyimsiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk | why a.i. is danger and racist #podcasts

In Season 4, Episode 5 of otipêyimsiw-iskwêwak kihci-kîsikohk, Métis in Space, Molly and Chelsea head to the Generation Energy Conference in Winnipeg to interview Erin Bow (physicist, author, and poet), Dr. Eric Bibeau (Associate Prof of Mechanical Engineering and NSERC/Manitoba Hydro Industrial Research Chair in Alternative Energy), and Dr. John Hepburn (Vice President of Research and International at University Of British Columbia and Vice-President of Research for CIFAR) about the future of energy, dys/utopias, and most importantly, SCIENCE.

Chatting with @erinbowbooks, Dr. John Hepburn, and Dr. Eric Bibeau was super flippin fun! We learned about why AIs are racist, why the grid is a social issue, and why scientists are both bleaker and more hopeful about the future than you might expect.

— Métis In Space (@Metis_In_Space) November 11, 2017

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a.i.

nice robot

we are not afraid of the knit robot... but the snake one... we are TERRIFIED... BOOM

bad robot

mechanizing ethics? superhuman artificial intelligence

oh, no... they did... AI learns to feel things...

Billionaires Create Fund to Teach Morals to AI

Who are they? EBay founder Pierre Omidyar, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the Knight Foundation (a non-profit charitable foundation) and Omidyar’s charitable foundation, Omidyar Network.
In a press release in January 2017, Omidyar announced the group has initially given $27 million to researchers who will work at MIT’s Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society to develop what Constellation Research (a Silicon Valley technology research and advisory firm) VP and principal analyst Steve Wilson calls a “deep, cross-disciplinary systems thinking being applied to the problem of mechanizing ethics.”

For example, one of the most critical challenges is how do we make sure that the machines we ‘train’ don’t perpetuate and amplify the same human biases that plague society?

VIA

(Really!) Billionaires are moral? The inmates are running the asylum now? BOOM

Commenter: How about teaching morals to yourselves? The top 8 of the richest men in the world have as much as 3.6 billion people, or the bottom half of the entire global population. That's absolutely disgusting. Something is wrong with peoples greed and yet nothing ever changes.

you have got to be kidding me

Why is the first robot to receive citizenship sparking outrage over women's rights? pic.twitter.com/I82oWAi9Po

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 31, 2017




superhuman artificial intelligence

Ray Kurzweil writes that, due to paradigm shifts, a trend of exponential growth extends Moore's law from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays, and electromechanical computers. He predicts that the exponential growth will continue, and that in a few decades the computing power of all computers will exceed that of ("unenhanced") human brains, with superhuman artificial intelligence appearing around the same time.

This kinda makes my head go...BOOM