On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Mel Beckman wrote:
Google has always played fast and loose with its AI claims, but today t
has gone too far. In a WSJ story, Google is misleading people into
thinking it has achieved emotion, if not outright consciousness, in its
AI programming:
http://slashdot.org/submission/4569873/wsj-jumps-the-shark-with-ai-gets-testy-story
Google claims one of its computer programs using a database of movie
scripts to answer questions supposedly "lashed out" at a human
researcher who was repeatedly asking it to explain morality.
Is the WSJ a wholly owned subsidiary of GOOG? It looks to me like a WSJ
journalist said that.
Don't computer scientists have a responsibility to deal forthrightly
with the public on the real state of research in such fields as AI? When
an Internet provider like Google makes such outlandish claims, one has
to wonder what the real agenda is.
I think you're confusing computer scientist integrity with journalism and
a desire to attract readers.
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