Transcript - University of Portsmouth

It is Artificial Idiocy that is alarming,
Not Artificial Intelligence
David Sanders
Reader – University of Portsmouth
Senior Research Fellow – Royal Academy of Engineering.
THE PRESENTATION
INTRODUCTION
BRAINS OF ANIMALS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
CAN THEY TURN HOSTILE?
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
INTRODUCTION
 Computer systems that:
 simulate intelligent behaviour
 perform tasks requiring human intelligence
 Interact with the real world (do something?)
BRAINS OF ANIMALS
Lower level intelligence
Higher level intelligence
Can a brain be simulated?
Will simulated brains be intelligent?
What are human abilities?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence exhibited by machines / software
Can learn by observing
General intelligence is long term goal
Philosophical issues
Ethics / Character of the mind
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
1940s - Idea of child like machine
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
1940s - Idea of child like machine
1950s - Turing
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
1940s - Idea of child like machine
1950s - Turing
1956- John McCarthy
"Artificial Intelligence”
the science and engineering
of
making intelligent machines
CAN THEY TURN HOSTILE?
Open letter from Stephen Hawkin:
"Because of the great potential of AI, it is important
to research how to reap its benefits while avoiding
potential pitfalls.“
Worry:
- NOT eerie growing consciousness
- ability to make high-quality decisions
CAN THEY TURN HOSTILE?
Genie in the lamp…
you get what you ask for - not what you want
CAN THEY TURN HOSTILE?
Cannot understand
- human intentions
- desires
Don’t know humans exist
Real difficulties are not computers but actuators
1 or 2 year old infant AI may be frightening
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?
What should they be allowed to do?
Who to kill on the battlefield?
Our brain is analogue
AI may need analogue computers NOT digital
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?
AI may take over choices…
e.g: driving cars, aiming and firing missiles
Life & death decisions / ethical problems
If AI makes a decision we regret - change software
Human beings make mistakes
- intelligent machines will too
WHERE ARE WE GOING ?
Intelligent machines can be useful
Stupid machines are scary
Algorithms can make appropriate decisions
then suddenly make a crazy one
AI has no emotion - not subject to natural selection
No metric for intelligence - are we improving?