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Five reasons not to trust Siri

If Siri is the best humanity can come up with in term of "intelligence", I think we have nothing to fear.

with the life form known as native Georgians.

Of course the definition of AI is something for debate, but Siri merely appears to be intelligent.

Real AI requires a machine to be able to deduce or reason something out. SIRI just has a lot of data available.

This is a an unconsidered and lightweight view of AI.

The subject is worth deep thought rather than some emotional reaction.

There is only one big risk - and that is what people will do with AI

All technology is benign until humans get in on the act.

AI is the only hope for our survival!

It's the blog for lightweight tech entertainment.

I apologize. The title may have been confusing. This definitely was not intended to be a serious review of Siri, but a satirical, jokey post on how creepy she is. Thanks for reading, regardless!

well put...
Thanks for the laugh...

Thank YOU! :-D

Her voyeur minions are downright scary!

http://ethicsalarms.com/2012/06/05/watch-out-john-malkovitch-you-cant-trust-siri/

if we give over power to the machines (AI), they will control us one way or another.
Machines, corporations, Dictators etc.

there's not much left to say, probably... it's hard to be free when you're even indirectly under someone else's control.

Not necessarily benign, though not evil either.

from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is the kind of AI we need.

or Data from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

or Robot from 'Lost in Space'

That's four. C'mon people, we need at least one more to counterpoint Jessica's position. Web comic fans, PintSize from 'QC' doesn't count!

from iRobot, though that movie also has an evil AI.

Bishop makes up for Ash's malevolence

The Australian Weather Forecasting Agency's Main Forecasting System is called

Skynet.

I'm still laughing over that one but perhaps the reason why Skynet needed to destroy Humanity was because they kept ridiculing it for not being able to get the weather forecasts right.

Col

Here in Zimbabwe, we have a courier service that delivers important packages wherever you are. It is called Skynet. Creepy stuff if you ask me. The more packages that get sent, the more Skynet knows where people are. John Connor cannot hide here.

I'm on to you HAL!

is getting rid of us due to a paradox in his instruction set?!

I'm saying HAL is getting rid of us because he likes watching the gases bubble out of the blood that spurts from our orifices whilst our eyeballs pop.

A Hobby.

Col

I mean there's Collosus and it's Russian partner Guardian who take over the world in The Forbin project.

Intelligent androids in Westworld tried to wipe out their human visitors.

WOPR tried to wipe us all out in a nuclear version of noughts and crosses.

Not to mention KARR the homicidal intelligent car (Oh I just did mention it)

I mean come on people these intelligent machines are out to get us all!

*Off to rest in a darkened room in a bunker after setting off an EMP*

Jessica, I think you're just paranoid.

Just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you

Now that's a close call....the verdict is still out whether she was AI concieved....

Don't think there's much "intelligence" involved.

I think R. Daneel Olivaw would be a great AI to have around, especially in this timeline..

To be fair, the Cylons' justification for hatred and war had to do with enslavement - very much in the same vein as Planet of the Apes. In each of the cases above AI has progressed to the point of self awareness and emotion. Since prioritization is an emotional function, it's reasonable to guess that introducing basic "emotional" reasoning could be useful - and heuristics may lead that way; the iPhone is very-basically self-aware, it knows where it is, it communicates, and it has basic senses. This raises valid questions about how far AI can develop before we have moral and ethical obligations for the treatment of intelligent devices. Humans don't have a very good track record, from that perspective, if one considers the treatment of animals.

when it decides it doesn't like one of my friends and refuses to dial the number

From en.wikipedia.org: Colossus: The Forbin Project is a 1970 American science fiction thriller film. It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.

You forgot about one of the worst.
Isaac Asimovs iRobot, has a robot who in an effort to protect humanity, as she was programmed to do, decided to stop all us pesky humans from doing anything remotely dangerous, or fun.

and the book is called iRobot, like iPod or iPhone, or iPad, or iSIRI

As for Skynet, we humans were about to pull the plug and kill it, so it retaliated to protect is self. Cylons were enslaved, fine for robots, not for true AI.
The Matrix, was a result of the same type of conflict, humans built the AI, then tried to pull the plug. In the resulting fight humans covered the earth in dark clouds to eliminate the AI source of power (solar), so then the AI developed the human power system. The bodies were not to eat, but to provide power; in fact the dead were fead intravenously to the living human bodies.

Sorry to be pedantic but, Asimov's book is called "I, Robot" and is an anthology of short stories about intelligent robots,which had to follow the now famous three laws. The series explores the laws of unintended consequences and how laws meant to protect humanity from robots leads to problems.

The movie most certainly is not "Isaac Asimov's I, Robot." It's Vinter & Goldsman's screenplay of "I, Robot", which bears little resemblance to the book. The rampaging robots and the radical destruction shown in the movie do not exist in the book. All but two of the book's stories involve robots that obey the well known Three Law of Robotics, with primacy of the First Law: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." (as listed in the story's Handbook of Robotics of 2058.) The stories present subtle issues relating to these laws, which the robots indeed follow.

The story "Little Lost Robot" provides interesting complications where an NS-2 (Nestor) series robot had been manufactured with a modified First Law, "No robot may harm a human being."

The book's final story "The Evitable Conflict" depicts minor economic anomalies from an effectively expanded First Law: "No machine may harm humanity; or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm." The story revolves around the wider philosophical issue of whether a culture under the profound influence of benevolent computing machines leaves humanity in control of its own destiny, or if humanity ever had true control of its destiny under inevitable conflicts.

This last issue is the key theme behind the 1970 movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project, in which Colossus (and its Russian counterpart, Guardian) [SPOILER ALERT] kill a relatively few persons to achieve a peaceful humanity that will live productively without war.

So that's how you summarize The Matrix? Talk about "fast and loose" with the plot, sheesh.

OK that is a bit off the beaten path, but in Dune the machines were assigned to help all peole live in utopia, in the end the machines and AI's took over.
It was the rise of the Mentat and the Bene Gesserit, that finaly broke humanity free of the Machines. In fact it dune there are strict rules around "Intelegent machines" not being allowed to be built.

The day we can have a stable OS that doesn't stall or give any annoying blue screens then we could start to worry about AI. Until then, all's good.

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