The ethics will remain to be seen. Someone will have to provide the US Army with 60,000 robots to backfill their military downsizing of soldiers. With the purchase of Schaft and Boston Dynamics,it looks like Google is the only candidate to fill that supplier role. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/robots-replace-troops-battlefield-111500084.html
~PM Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:34:14 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] Fwd: Google Alert - artificial intelligence On 26/01/2014 21:30, Ben Goertzel wrote: Wow, Google is really trying to consolidate & expand their position in AI & robotics... Congrats to Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. "The DeepMind-Google ethics board, which DeepMind pushed for, will devise rules for how Google can and can't use the technology. The structure of the board is unclear." - https://www.theinformation.com/google-beat-facebook-for-deepmind-creates-ethics-board I have a feeling the board won't push for international open-source development with governmental oversight. Their idea of "governmental oversight" will probably be the Google -> NSA trapdoor... -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
