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“begin with a quotation from 1950. The world was a much simpler place back then. Television was in black and white. Jet planes were still to enter passenger service. The silicon transistor was yet to be invented. And there were fewer than a dozen computers in existence worldwide.1 Each was a glorious combination of vacuum tubes, relays, plug boards and capacitors that filled a room.”
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
“There are many decisions we can hand over to the machines. But I argue that only some decisions should be - even when the machines can make them better than we can. As a society, we need to start making some choices as to what we entrust to the machines.”
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
“There are several other reasons why Deep Learning will not provide the whole answer to the problem of building thinking machines. First, we will often want our thinking machines to explain their decisions. Deep Learning is largely a closed box. It cannot meaningfully explain why a particular input gives a certain output. If we are to trust the system, we may want it to explain some of its decisions. Second, we will often want to guarantee certain behaviours. An autonomous car must always stop at a red light. Air traffic control software can never permit two aircraft into the same sector. Deep Learning does not permit such guarantees to be made, and we will likely need more rule-based systems to do this.”
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
― It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots
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