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Re: OK, Google. Time to dial back the AI hype.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Jun 29 07:50:57 2015
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:50:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
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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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