Last calendar week I published an article in the Washington Post about a very real possibility for the egress of artificial intelligence that we rarely believe . Here ’s how the article starts :
If machines ever become sentient , science fable motion-picture show have conditioned us to expect one thing : Our new mechanical masters will prove to take over the world and demolish us all . But the reality of artificial intelligence is a lot weirder than even the motorcar vs. manhood “ Matrix ” movies intimate . When AI at last emerges , it will be a mass more like an erudite video store clerk than a superpowered killer .
If you ’ve ever bought something at Amazon.com or rented a pic from Netflix , you ’ve interacted with a software system program that owes its existence to over half a century of research into artificial intelligence . That program composes sentences such as : “ Because you enjoyed the picture show ‘ Godzilla , ’ we think you would enjoy ‘ Ultraman . ’ ” It ’s call a “ recommender system , ” and it ’s contrive to learn about you and your fellow humans by gathering data about you and drawing conclusions from it ; finally , it will know more about what you like than you do .
If you ’re interested in learning more about the ever - acquire brains of picture recommender software program , and how it become intelligent , check out the article .
viaWashington Post
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