AI Is Not Similar To Human Intelligence. Thinking So Could Be Dangerous

We imagine befriending Siri, or that our self-driving car has our best interests at heart. When we paint a picture of an advanced AI, we might imagine machines that "learn", similar to the ways a toddler might learn. We imagine them "thinking" or "coming to conclusions" similar to how we do. Even the term "neural networks" – an algorithm modeled after the human brain – brings up images of a brain-like machine, making decisions. However, thinking an artificial intelligence works in the same way as a human brain can be misleading and even dangerous, says a recent paper in Minds and Machines by David Watson of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Touring Institute. One of the hottest and most powerful types of machine learning today is the neural network.