Rex Pommier wrote: >Here's a different take on AI taking over and wiping out humanity. Last >month an AI chatbox allegedly convinced a Belgian man to commit suicide >after convincing him that if he "sacrificed himself", the chatbox could >save mankind from climate change. Obviously the guy had other issues >but somebody programmed the AI to respond in such a way to him.
Rex, the scary part about AI is that nobody programmed it to respond that way-it learned how to do so on its own. That's an important difference: it was taught to learn, and it learned to do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
