Artificial Intelligence Quotes (391 quotes)

Why give a robot an order to obey orderswhy aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harmwouldn't it be easier never to command it to do harm in the first place? Does the universe contain a mysterious force pulling entities toward malevolence, so that a positronic brain must be programmed to withstand it? Do intelligent beings inevitably develop an attitude problem? () Now that computers really have become smarter and more powerful, the anxiety has waned. Today's ubiquitous, networked computers have an unprecedented ability to do mischief should they ever go to the bad. But the only mayhem comes from unpredictable chaos or from human malice in the form of viruses. We no longer worry about electronic serial killers or subversive silicon cabals because we are beginning to appreciate that malevolencelike vision, motor coordination, and common sensedoes not come free with computation but has to be programmed in. () Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem! Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

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Artificial Intelligence Quotes (391 quotes)