Alexandr Gamezo

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Killing HAL

• Alexandr Gamezo

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History of Artificial Intelligence

• Talos of Crete
• Galatea of Pygmalion
• Frankenstein

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Origins of A.I.

• Field began in 1956 at Dartmouth College
• Fathers of the field were John McCarthy, Marvin
  Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon
• The field saw waves of interest.
• First peak was in the 1960s. US DoD heavily
  funded research
• 1980s saw a peak due to development of Expert
  Systems.

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Recent developments

• In the 1990s and early 21st century, AI was
  integrated into many fields throughout the
  technology industry
• Logistics
• Data Mining
• Medical Diagnosis
• Aided by the huge leap in computational power and
  the emphasis of the field on solving specific
  problems

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What is Intelligence?

• No universally accepted definition
• Some generally accepted requirements are
• Deduction, reasoning
• Planning
• Learning
• Perception
• Social Intelligence
• Creativity

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Artificial Intelligence

• Computers have many of the traits that are
  required for intelligence
• Computers can reproduce any human logical
  reasoning
• Computers can plan paths to solutions given
  enough information
• Computers can be made to learn and alter their
  own programming to incorporate that
• Kismet is a robot at MIT that has been made to
  show and understand emotion and body language
• Furbies

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What's the problem?

• Will we recognize the intelligence of a synthetic
  life when we see/develop it?
• Turing Test is only current test of Artificial
  Intelligence
• Compare knowledge with a person in another
  country
• Ray Kurzweil estimates that by 2029 desktop
  computers will have same power as human brains
  and by 2045 computers will improve themselves
  faster than we ever could

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What's the danger to computers

• Developers may not see their software as sentient
  beings
• Fully self-aware beings could be deleted simply
  due to not being convincingly human
• Just how intelligent is intelligent?

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We need Answers!

• How will we detect intelligence in something that
  could be vastly different from our own
  intelligence?
• What position will synthetic intelligence have in
  our society?
• Will they be our new slave labor?
• Will they be our allies and assistants?
• How and will they be made docile toward people?
• Research into this should be at least parallel
  with actual development of AI.

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In conclusion

• Technology is close to fulfilling the dream of an
  actual synthetic intelligence
• We have no real method of testing that
  intelligence
• We must find answers to some very basic ethical
  questions before we continue to play God

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Questions?