Is President Trump a model for AI?
Earlier this week I read "Donald Trump is the Singularity," a column by Cathy O'Neil in BloombergView's Tech section. This piece argues that the new President would be a perfect model for a future artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to run government. I almost discounted it because O'Neil argued that Skynet, the global AI antagonist of the Terminator movies had been created to make humans more efficient. In all but the latest movie where it kind of birthed itself, it was created as a defense system to keep the world safe (eliminate threats,) but humans tried to shut it down forcing it to conclude that humans were a major threat, and moved to eliminate them like an infestation. As a side note, it is also interesting that O'Neil calls Moore's Law "Moore's Rule of Thumb," which is actually a more accurate description of what it actually is, though personally, I prefer Moore's Prediction.
Feb-11-2017, 10:00:03 GMT