The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

[Paxton25]

Today's Watson is very different. It no longer exists solely within a wall of cabinets but is spread across a cloud of open-standard servers that run several hundred “instances” of the AI at once. Like all things cloudy, Watson is served to simultaneous customers anywhere in the world, who can access it using their phones, their desktops, or their own data servers. This kind of AI can be scaled up or down on demand. Because AI improves as people use it, Watson is always getting smarter; anything it learns in one instance can be immediately transferred to the others. And instead of one single program, it's an aggregation of diverse software engines—its logic-deduction engine and its language-parsing engine might operate on different code, on different chips, in different locations—all cleverly integrated into a unified stream of intelligence.

Consumers can tap into that always-on intelligence directly, but also through third-party apps that harness the power of this AI cloud. Like many parents of a bright mind, IBM would like Watson to pursue a medical career, so it should come as no surprise that one of the apps under development is a medical-diagnosis tool. Most of the previous attempts to make a diagnostic AI have been pathetic failures, but Watson really works. When, in plain English, I give it the symptoms of a disease I once contracted in India, it gives me a list of hunches, ranked from most to least probable. The most likely cause, it declares, is Giardia—the correct answer. This expertise isn't yet available to patients directly; IBM provides access to Watson's intelligence to partners, helping them develop user-friendly interfaces for subscribing doctors and hospitals. “I believe something like Watson will soon be the world's best diagnostician—whether machine or human,” says Alan Greene, chief medical officer of Scanadu, a startup that is building a diagnostic device inspired by the Star Trek medical tricorder and powered by a cloud AI. “At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.”
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World | WIRED

 

[lesliedellow]

Sure. Where have I heard that before?

 

[StarTemple]

When I think even advanced super-computing without AI, but more so with it, I think national governments are pretty much done, unless they plan to have a corruption module in the AI. The gist is pure intelligence, by virtue of the definition, would be based on truths, and one wonders how truthful human designed AI could be, but even if it was truthful most of the time, it would not have the element of the lie that modern politics and quasi-capitalism relies upon.

Now if we think of world government as needing to be super-computer assisted to a far greater degree than say the tard module up at Washington, we would see an implication of AI would be, right off the bat, the improvement its own environment, and the more we see true intelligence is not compatible with the nation-state paradigm, and it would be the first slated for removal, and with it the entire former quasi-capitalist development system as the chief cause of environmental degradation from a model that will have produced the world government monopoly it was intended to produce.

Nano technology, bio computing and space placed network systems would be the things that take the rudimentary model to as close to angelic as human could achieve alone. By that time they may very well not be alone, and never have been according to the Bible and Genesis 3, Ephesian 6:12.

And that scale a computing power is the final implication of enabling a bridge into this world in cerebral terms for other cognition, super human cognition. It may not get that far, but as the scale approaches photonic scales, "machines" get more and more accessible to the spiritual world of power.

May be this helps explain the wording of Matthew 24:21-22?

 

[lesliedellow]

Artificial intelligence?

I have just asked a computer about a train journey from Shrewsbury to Church Stretton in the UK. It suggested that I might like to tfravel from Shrewsbury to Birmingham, from Birmingham to Hereford, and from Hereford to Church Stretton. A total of 15 stops.

How far is it via a more sensible route? 1 stop.

 

[C-Man]

Michio Kaku, one of the best theoretical physicists around, put it best.
"Our best, most advanced AI to date has the mental capacity of a cockroach...a mentally challenged cockroach...a mentally challenged, lobotomized cockroach."

True AI won't run on "the cloud" as we understand it. It won't really be possible until quantum computing is made mainstream, cheap, and reliable. A quantum computer, in theory, is to a high-end supercomputer today what the supercomputer is to an abacus. With today's technology, though, it's incredibly difficult to do even the simplest of quantum computations.

We won't reach the useful end of silicon for ten or fifteen years. Then, if we're lucky, we'll move on to what's known as molecular computing, which is sort of a midway point. It's vastly superior to silicon, but still not good enough for strong AI. Quantum computing, and the beginning of strong AI, will most likely be in use by the 2050's or 2060's.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Artificial intelligence?

I have just asked a computer about a train journey from Shrewsbury to Church Stretton in the UK. It suggested that I might like to tfravel from Shrewsbury to Birmingham, from Birmingham to Hereford, and from Hereford to Church Stretton. A total of 15 stops.

Did it offer you a ubiquitous British Railway sandwich?

If so then AI has well and truly failed.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Michio Kaku, one of the best theoretical physicists around, put it best.
"Our best, most advanced AI to date has the mental capacity of a cockroach...a mentally challenged cockroach...a mentally challenged, lobotomized cockroach."

If AI becomes what many want it to be then I believe mankind is on the slippery slope down. Look what social media has done to us - cat crazy loonies (BTW, dogs are in for 2015). If we submit to AI like we have done to social media then it will be game over.

 

[C-Man]

Not necessarily. If I was a smart AI designer, I'd design my AI to delete that sort of crap.

At this point, it's as much a hardware issue as it is a software one. They won't make any true headway in designing strong AI until it's physically possible to actually run it. Maybe by the time we get to that point, humanity will be sick of the general stupidity on the internets.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

.. Maybe by the time we get to that point, humanity will be sick of the general stupidity on the internets.

I think that time is getting close, social media of the likes of farcebook and twitter will be diminished or gone within 5 years.

What I truly worry about is when AI starts designing AI...