TECH:WE SHOULDN'T BE SCARED OF AI

Artificial intelligence.

    Business insider had a conversation with the founder of O'Reilly Media,Tim O'Reilly about the fear of Artificial intelligence. Tim O'Reilly,in the interview,explained why humans shouldn't be scared of Artificial intelligence becoming smarter than us.

Tim O'Reilly said..."There are people who express the worry that Artificial Intelligence is going to become more intelligent than humans,and I'm not really worried about it.I actually have an alternate theory of artificial intelligence, that we're already building AIs. Facebook is an AI, Google is an AI.
   
And the question really is...'what are the rules that we use to construct this organism'?
   
Because already these AIs are potentially hostile to humanity.
   
All of our vast algorithmic systems like Google, like Facebook, like our financial market actually also have this runaway objective function,this thing that we ask them to do,and it doesn't always have the consequences that we expected.
 
Our algorithmic systems, whether they're simply big data systems or true AI, all have this characteristic that we give them something that we ask them to optimize; and that optimization function can get out of control.

Facebook's creators thought that their optimization function of engagement ,of showing people more of what they liked, more of what they shared.They didn't expect it to lead to the amplification of partisan divides, that it would be an invitation for spammers.

Our Algorithmic systems are a little bit like genies in Arabian mythology. We ask them to do something but if they don't express the wish quite right, they misinterpret it and give us unexpected and often alarming results."

   Personally...I think AI is here to stay.I mean...it has helped make most things very easy for us as humans...imagine having a computer that thinks like a human,that's big.And on...whether AI can become more intelligent than us?
Well..I don't think that'd be easy.

What do you think about this?