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AI Rights
Carl-E:
This is especially true since, in the first instances, AI's will be controlling brains for various types of equipment rather than an amiable humaniform robot. They'll quickly be adapted for robots, but as the in-comic UN speech relayed, it will be developed and first recognized in some sort of a box.
In fact, the article DSL linked makes a good point that they're on the way already in those capacties. The self-driving autos, Siri, etc. are the types of applications where an AI would first be used, although they'd probably be developed in parallel with the robots now being used for hospital nursing rounds and as receptionists.
Hell, we're already used to talking to a primitive form of AI when we call almost any service line.
"Para Espanol, oprima el dos."
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 01 Jan 2012, 13:41 ---Hell, we're already used to talking to a primitive form of AI when we call almost any service line.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I hate those things. My wife has an accent and the damn thing never can understand her, so whenever she calls a line like that she ends up handing me the phone or mashing "0" repeatedly until the computer gives up and transfers her to a squishy human.
bicostp:
But are those phone menu systems really 'intelligent'? They're essentially talking flowcharts with semi-accurate speech recognition. They leave all the logic up to the human on the phone. If the caller has a need that can't be fulfilled by the limited scope of the flowchart, they get passed off to a human in a call center (who is usually reading a flowchart of their own, but can at least give you an answer besides "I did not understand that please repeat your question").
Carl-E:
I did say primitive...
The thing is, they are capable of a certain amount of decision making beyond the flowchart. I know of one service line which, after getting my information and then bringing up my incredibly complex account to give me whatever information it can, pauses for a moment and then says, "I'll have to connect you with someone who can help you".
AI is like Athur Clarke's statement about magic- any technology advanced enough to seem intelligent to the average user passes for intelligent.
Right up until it does something stupid.
Carl-E:
Perhaps not, but there's a certain amount of analysis of the complexity of the account going on that takes it out of the system. While that's really just another decision box of some sort, it mimics an intelligent decision pretty well.
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