Google Is Working on Kill Switch for Artificial Intelligence - Breaking911

Pop culture wants us to fear the artificially intelligent robot: The titular "Terminator" characters goes back in time to kill a mother and her child. Cylons of "Battlestar Galactica" fame destroy Earthly civilization and, bloodthirst not slaked, pursue the remnants of humanity through space. Today's artificial intelligence researchers are not, in fact, on the cusp of creating a doomsday AI. Instead, as IBM executive Guruduth Banavar recently told The Washington Post, current AI is a "portfolio of technologies" assigned to specific tasks. Such programs include software capable of defeating the world's best Go players, yes, but also isolated mundanities like the Netflix algorithm that recommends which sitcom to watch next.