Jimmy Higgins
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I was wondering about the ability of learning and how inputting data might always result in some level of bias. Our best example of AI is currently Data and the robot in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Both seem to take information and process it without bias... but what is information. How does the data get inserted into the Matrix? Data is black and white, but it's incorporation into having meaning isn't.
How new information is added into a collective is probably one of the most important aspects of intelligence. I read an article about something crazy a Democrat did, via a right-wing source, and I automatically do a fact check. I did plenty on Trump as well, when things seemed too crazy. Some people don't fact check and stick with the initial report (kind of like an immune system).
Additionally, there are other aspects. What dimension to take from info. How it looks, why it looks like it does, how it looks compared to other things, is it contrary, is it consistent. An artist sees things one way, an engineer another, a musician another, an idiot however simple way it can be ingested mentally. Can you program for an AI to take things in all manners, just one manner? Can it become perfect or just a muddled mess? How about political information, and the ability to absorb the facts, the innuendo, the spin, and lies. To filter that requires some level of bias on data, when to question it, when to doubt it.
And these processes, would they still be apt to be hacked? It takes so little effort to get the existing "AI" to say stupid things. Will it be harder for elaborate AI, or would it just be an algorithm that knows the sweet spot for get lies inputted as fact? Systems would need to be developed to prevent that, but again, this creates biases in the system for inputting data which would often be the result of the biases of the programmers.
How new information is added into a collective is probably one of the most important aspects of intelligence. I read an article about something crazy a Democrat did, via a right-wing source, and I automatically do a fact check. I did plenty on Trump as well, when things seemed too crazy. Some people don't fact check and stick with the initial report (kind of like an immune system).
Additionally, there are other aspects. What dimension to take from info. How it looks, why it looks like it does, how it looks compared to other things, is it contrary, is it consistent. An artist sees things one way, an engineer another, a musician another, an idiot however simple way it can be ingested mentally. Can you program for an AI to take things in all manners, just one manner? Can it become perfect or just a muddled mess? How about political information, and the ability to absorb the facts, the innuendo, the spin, and lies. To filter that requires some level of bias on data, when to question it, when to doubt it.
And these processes, would they still be apt to be hacked? It takes so little effort to get the existing "AI" to say stupid things. Will it be harder for elaborate AI, or would it just be an algorithm that knows the sweet spot for get lies inputted as fact? Systems would need to be developed to prevent that, but again, this creates biases in the system for inputting data which would often be the result of the biases of the programmers.