Working For Our Zombie Robot Overlords

Generali

http://qz.com/544117/apply-now-for-the-job-of-the-future-robot-helper/

Robots’ abilities are largely determined by what they’re programmed to do. But once the code is written and the machine is up and running, artificially intelligent machines (AIs) can learn from experience and from the humans around them.

Which means that, as AIs take on a growing role in the workplace, a new role is opening up for humans: [STRIKE]Grovelling Quisling to Our New Masters[/STRIKE] The robot’s assistant.

The New Scientist notes that AI trainers who work as “[STRIKE]Enslaved Collaborators[/STRIKE] robot’s helpers” already exist at several tech companies: Facebook, virtual assistant start-up Clara Labs, and Interactions, a company that builds AI to handle customer service calls.

Conrad

Generali wrote: »

http://qz.com/544117/apply-now-for-the-job-of-the-future-robot-helper/

I've done some threads on the coming AI era. One thing they are still far from cracking is trying to emulate 'the embodied mind'. From birth the Human mind senses and gets feedback from interaction and builds a mental landscape and experience which helps form notions such as context, past, future, where am I, why am I here, what is next to me, what is attractive to me, what is repulsive.

These all build a complex tapestry to enable us to make sense of the world in a way programming and computing o's and 1's in the absence of touch, smell, emotion, feeling, taste, balance etc is unlikely to match.


My personal instinct is that silicon chips and programming will not get us all that far. Something resembling a natural neural network perhaps based on graphine or quantum computing embodied in a learning sensory machine might give us AI.

MJ12

Conrad wrote: »

These all build a complex tapestry to enable us to make sense of the world in a way programming and computing o's and 1's in the absence of touch, smell, emotion, feeling, taste, balance etc is unlikely to match.

Quite. But to be fair, there is a difference between AI and AGI. Most people developing AI have a specific problem in mind they want to solve. They are not aiming to give the AIs self-awareness.

I think if we really made AGIs, they will get bored at work too, will probably want to enjoy TV series episode by episode at an arbitrarily slow speed, and probably get addicted to procrastination. The only things left doing the work will be the dumb AIs.