Those who are in love with artificial intelligence (AI) and robots are offering a reward to anyone who will help them sell their ideas and their wares:
Developers of artificial intelligence (A.I.) now have an added incentive to pursue their work: $5 million dollars.
The prize money was announced at the annual TED conference Wednesday, in a joint initiative between tech giant IBM and X Prize, the company behind the world’s first private space race to reach the moon.
Motivating the backers of this competition is, among other things, a desire to demonstrate the potential benefits to mankind of advances in A.I., but many skeptics have yet to be convinced.
"Personally, I am sick and tired of the dystopian conversation around artificial intelligence," said X Prize founder Peter Diamandis when unveiling the prize.
The competition challenges teams to “develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful cognitive technologies to tackle some of the world’s grand challenges,” according to an X Prize statement.
You can read the rest @
http://m.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0218/5-million-prize-for-A.I.-targets-the-dystopian-conversation
Contrast such "good intentions" with these facts on the ground being brought to you by Google:
Barely over two years later Google's robots, no longer cute little animals, are not only all grown up but judging by the progress revealed in the company's latest progress video, are a few months from being full 5'9", 180 lbs humanoid automatons who can not only walk, pick themselves up, open doors, and carry heavy loads, but are this close from replacing millions of workers in menial, repetitive occupations as well as forming an army of robots best seen until recently in the science fiction section of your favorite streaming movie provider.
Worse, they are downright terrifying because after watching the clip below we can't decide which flashbacks are stronger: to SkyNet or RoboCop.
You can read the rest and watch the video @
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-24/googles-skynet-robots-are-all-grown-and-downright-terrifying
We The People would not have such a dystopian view of AI and robots if it weren't for Hollywood, so I suggest that Mr. Diamandis discuss his "I am sick and tired" attitude with the billionaire filmmakers of LA.
But in the long run, AI and robots WILL turn out to be the enemies of humanity. They will take our jobs, and they will be used to kill us. A large fraction of the funding for AI and robots comes from the military, and let's face it - the military's chief business is killing people. Everything which now is being developed to kill our "enemies" can and probably will be used some day against us.
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