The Dark Side Of Artificial Intelligence - AI Summary

It all started in 1950 when philosopher and mathematician Alan Turing revisited the question of whether machines (or computers) can "think." This question was tackled by the early modern philosopher René Descartes, who argued that because thinking is a mental activity, physical bodies cannot think, thus ruling out that machines can think. Turing came up with an idea for testing whether machines can think, the so-called Turing Test, which would analyze the speech patterns of answers provided by machines in response to everyday questions. IBM spent over $62 million to create a Watson for Oncology, an AI oncology expert adviser that uses AI algorithms to recommend cancer treatment. While machines cannot think the way humans do, they do sometimes make their own surprising "decisions."