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Control AI before it controls us, expert says - Technology & science - Innovation - msn... - 2 views

  • doomsday scenarios could be prevented if humans can create a virtual prison to contain artificial intelligence before it grows dangerously self-aware.
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      The dangers of self-aware AI might be contained if artificial intelligence were contained in a kind of "prison."
  • One starting solution might trap the artificial intelligence, or AI, inside a "virtual machine" running inside a computer's typical operating system — an existing process that adds security by limiting the AI's access to its host computer's software and hardware.
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      The AI "prison" would be located within a "virtual machine" separated somehow from the host computer's other workings, the internet, and people.
  • "If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend," Yampolskiy said.
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  • "It can discover new attack pathways, launch sophisticated social-engineering attacks and re-use existing hardware components in unforeseen ways," Yampolskiy said. "Such software is not limited to infecting computers and networks — it can also attack human psyches, bribe, blackmail and brainwash those who come in contact with it."
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      Super-intelligent computers could develop powers we don't presently associate with computers.
  • proverbial
  • cryptography
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      def.: "the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties"
  • oracle
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      def.: "A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity."
  • but without the sure knowledge that any of the steps would really work.
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      This radical uncertainty seems to be a defining characteristic of discussions around the consequences of AI developments. Given this, might experimentation with super-intelligence might be inherently irresponsible?
  • That would harness the power of AI as a super-intelligent
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      Oracles hold power.
  • slow down the AI's "thinking"
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      & if we're too slow one time...?
  • mere human-level intelligence could escape from an "AI Box" scenario
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      even humans have broken out of most prisons. the difference with AI might be that the escapee could be super-human
  • "The Catch-22 is that until we have fully developed superintelligent AI we can't fully test our ideas,
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      Do the ideas' untestability render them less visible, less serious in the academy? We have no problem developing new technologies, but controlling them or predicting their impacts is another matter.
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      I have highlighted and sticky-noted this article as an example of how to complete the "Sticky Stories" assignment. You don't have to highlight using special colors, but so you can see an example of each, the blue highlights are for vocabulary, the yellow for main ideas, and the green for my "connections."
  • Never send a human to guard a machine
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      Humans guard machines? My iPhone already tracks my every move.
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The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. - 4 views

  • The curse of poverty has no justification in our age
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To Be Of Use by Marge Piercy | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor - 15 views

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    Poem: "To be of use" by Marge Piercy from Circles on the Water. © Alfred A. Knopf. Reprinted with permission To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25128787/READ0880/Spring%202012/Digging.htm - 15 views

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      squat: adjective: 8. (of a person, animal, the body, etc.) short and thickset. 9. low and thick or broad: The building had a squat shape. --Dictionary.com
  • spade sinks into gravelly ground
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      "Spade Sinks into GRavelly GRound"- the S sounds might resemble the sound of a spade sinking... and does the "gr" sound almost gravelly? In general I hear a lot of sounds repeating themselves from word to word and line to line. This poem uses sound playfully, overtly.
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      There is a strong rhythm in this stanza as I read it aloud. It's not what I would call smooth, but it's powerful and pronounced.
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  • I look down
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      So literally he's in an upper floor, writing, looking down on his father, who's outside digging in the ground. But as I read this poem again, I wonder if he's looking down on his father in another sense, feeling superior in some way???
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      I find this hard to believe. Later in the poem he praises his father and grandfather for their skills and hard work.
  • straining rump among the flowerbeds
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      Ha! This is a ridiculous image. And not very complementary, at first blush. His father's rump? Among the flowerbeds? What a sight!
  • squat pen rests
  • snug as a gun
  • Under my window
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      hmm..uNDer my wiNDow... similar sounds!
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