Electric Dreams: The Lost Future of A.I.

[J T]

There has been a lot of discussion about the F.E.A.R. series in the FPS thread recently, so I thought I would post this interesting paper on the A.I. behind that game:

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc ... f_fear.pdf

[Pulsar_t]

AI scares me, and I'm not a huge fan of it.

Go to youtube and look up Dr. Hugo de Garis.

As soon as I saw one of his videos say "...and Jewish Deviance" I backed out.

Uff, I only watched his interview with David Knight. Can you please link me to that other vid?

[Forlorn Drifter]

Like I said, didn't watch it, just backed out as soon as I saw the name of the video. I don't think I'm willing to listen to this guy.

[J T]

There is a company called Deep Mind that has trained an Artificial Intelligence to become really good at playing old Atari games. "Become" is the important word here because the A.I. doesn't have a program giving it instructions on how to play the games optimally. It has a bit of code that instructs it on how to learn to become good at the games. It knows where the pixels are and it knows what its score is, and the rest it figures out after a few hours of trial and error. As you might expect, the A.I. can just demolish these games after a bit of training. Our machines know how to learn now. I feel scared... especially since Google recently bought Deep Mind for over $500 million.

Here's some video of the A.I. in action:

[Gunstar Green]

I saw about that a few days ago. It's really cool that it managed to come up with a strategy for beating Breakout that the programmers themselves didn't know existed. Cool and freaky. It's always shocking to see something you think is only possible in science fiction become reality.

[GSZX1337]

Our machines know how to learn now. I feel scared... especially since Google recently bought Deep Mind for over $500 million.

Are you scared because you're afraid these Artificial Intelligences would rebel against us? If that's the case, Keep Calm and Read This.

Here's a quote that pretty much sums up the sentiment of the article.

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy.

[J T]

The 2nd part in this series has shown up, but it's less about A.I. and more about how broken academia is because of how research funding mechanisms work.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02 ... nt-1833649

[J T]

I fell behind, but the series is still running and going strong again. I liked Part 3 quite a bit. I really want to play Alien: Isolation now.

Part 3
Part 4
Part 5