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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 2 Sep 2017

    Sensible (not sci-fi) suggestions for Regulating Artificial Intelligencehttps://nyti.ms/2wZrcI5 

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      1. Neha Bharti‏ @nehabharti19 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        These sound like rules for the most basic chat bots. We are way beyond that in real world.

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      1. Robert D. Schmidt‏ @RobertDSchmidt 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that the purpose of the IRobot stories was to illustrate why such rules wouldn't work.

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      2. Luciano Rossi Chulak‏ @Luchoche 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        AI is not possible. Remember John Searle' s Chinese room

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      3. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Luchoche @sapinker

        nobody takes that seriously

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      1. Oren Etzioni‏ @etzioni 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Thank you! I'm a huge fan of your work.

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      2. Hamilton Davis‏ @theholoscene 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        So many smart ppl fail to recognize the additional challenges associated w high competency in AI. This article totally ignores it as well.

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      3. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @theholoscene @sapinker

        namely?

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      4. Hamilton Davis‏ @theholoscene 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @scott_draves @sapinker

        Take a look at the concerns of Nick Bostrom, Max Tegmark, Sam Harris, Yuval Noah Harari, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Holy Cheese! CHEESE!‏ @Railrods 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @theholoscene @scott_draves @sapinker

        Are any of them AI researchers?

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      6. Hamilton Davis‏ @theholoscene 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Railrods @scott_draves @sapinker

        Appeals to authority aren't useful. The quality of their argument is what matters. Take a look.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Holy Cheese! CHEESE!‏ @Railrods 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @theholoscene @scott_draves @sapinker

        I read a very long book by Bostrum. Lots of scary thought experiments, but nothing based on current AI reality.

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      8. Pierino Forno‏ @ProfRonconi 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Railrods @scott_draves @sapinker

        Maybe you should read Enrico Fermi's scary thought experiments before nuclear bombs became a reality.

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      9. Holy Cheese! CHEESE!‏ @Railrods 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @ProfRonconi @scott_draves @sapinker

        But he was an actual nuclear researcher who understood the capabilities of the technology. Hence my "appeal to authority".

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      2. Neha Bharti‏ @nehabharti19 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        How will laws help solve the trolley problem for example?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Elaine‏ @ElaineVigneault 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @nehabharti19 @sapinker

        By creating consistency for how AI vehicles should behave, which makes all AI vehicles safer and in turn the roads safer for everyone.

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      4. Neha Bharti‏ @nehabharti19 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @ElaineVigneault @sapinker

        I understand the need for laws. But the alleged "sci-fi" like solution called value alignment must be the first and foremost.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Francesca Pallopides‏ @FPallopides 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Seriously? "AI should just obey the law"? Good luck making "the law" mathematically precise. Anthropomorphizing AI != considering solutions.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @FPallopides @sapinker

        AI does not need mathematical precision anymore than people do

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      4. Francesca Pallopides‏ @FPallopides 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @scott_draves @sapinker

        Telling an AI to "just follow the law" is like telling a Boston Dynamics robot to "just run". C'mon, it's SO EASY!

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @FPallopides @sapinker

        i have no interest is mocking strawman arguments

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      6. Tiberius Spock‏ @CNC3P0 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @scott_draves @FPallopides @sapinker

        Even if an AI fully understands the law how do you guarantee it cares to follow it?

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      7. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @CNC3P0 @FPallopides @sapinker

        the proposal wasn't that AI follow the law it was that people could not evade responsibility by blaming AI.

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      8. Francesca Pallopides‏ @FPallopides 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @scott_draves @CNC3P0 @sapinker

        It says "we don't want AI to...", repeatedly; then it says ppl must anticipate everything the AI does for accountability. So... outlaw AI?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Scott Draves‏ @scott_draves 2 Sep 2017
        Replying to @FPallopides @CNC3P0 @sapinker

        I think we are coming from such different places that Twitter medium will not work for us

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