Why we don't want AIs to learn from humans

Major portions of this series of posts are excerpts from my new book Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane. I also asked my Facebook followers if there were any questions they'd like answered about AI here, and I've tried to incorporate answers to those questions into this series of posts also. Deep learning is a term we're increasingly using to describe how we teach Artificial Intelligence (AI) to absorb new information and apply it in their interactions with the real world. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper in May 2015, Professor Geoff Hinton, an expert in artificial neural networks, said Google is "on the brink of developing algorithms with the capacity for logic, natural conversation and even flirtation." Google is currently working to encode thoughts as vectors described by a sequence of numbers.