Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Mel Beckman wrote:

> Google has always played fast and loose with its AI claims, but today t 
> has gone too far. In a WSJ story, Google is misleading people into 
> thinking it has achieved emotion, if not outright consciousness, in its 
> AI programming:
>
> http://slashdot.org/submission/4569873/wsj-jumps-the-shark-with-ai-gets-testy-story
>
> Google claims one of its computer programs using a database of movie 
> scripts to answer questions supposedly "lashed out" at a human 
> researcher who was repeatedly asking it to explain morality.

Is the WSJ a wholly owned subsidiary of GOOG?  It looks to me like a WSJ 
journalist said that.

> Don't computer scientists have a responsibility to deal forthrightly 
> with the public on the real state of research in such fields as AI? When 
> an Internet provider like Google makes such outlandish claims, one has 
> to wonder what the real agenda is.

I think you're confusing computer scientist integrity with journalism and 
a desire to attract readers.

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