Will Smarter AI Dumb Down the Humans?
November 25, 2011
Recently, Google’s Peter Norvig and Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz spoke jointly in Palo Alto about the future of artificial intelligence. Technology Review’s editor Tom Simonite interviewed the pair afterward, and published the results in “Google and Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence.”
The interview delves into challenges and advances in the field of AI, and is worth checking out if that’s your thing. It also notes that artificial intelligence is already ubiquitous; Simonite mentions the iPhone 4S’s Siri, for example. In a quote from Horvitz, we learned from the write up:
I think the idea that we can take leading-edge AI and develop a consumer device [Microsoft’s Kinect] that sold faster than any other before in history says something about the field of AI. Machine learning also plays a central role in Bing search, and I can only presume is also important in Google’s search offering. So, people searching the Web use AI in their daily lives.
Yes, AI is here and only growing. But does it seem to anyone else that Google and Microsoft want smart software, not smart, informed users? Is this a form of control?
My hunch is that “smart software” means more control for the large vendors. When people are accepting inputs as a reflex, the individuals may become more sheep like. Baa. Baa.
Cynthia Murrell, November 25, 2011
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