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sync0s

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Why all the animosity towards our electronic friends? It knows no hatred, bigotry or racism. James Cameron really fucked you up!
A computer can't independently identify hatred, bigotry, or racism, thus it needs to be programmed what to look for. This is where the bias comes in to play.

I just think it's foolish to say "Well humans can't do it, and even though humans program computers, they're more trustworthy and have no bias! So, therefore, let's trust in them to run our lives for us!"
 

Canna Sylvan

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A computer can't independently identify hatred, bigotry, or racism, thus it needs to be programmed what to look for. This is where the bias comes in to play.

I just think it's foolish to say "Well humans can't do it, and even though humans program computers, they're more trustworthy and have no bias! So, therefore, let's trust in them to run our lives for us!"
You might as well move to some third world country. Doctors already use IDSS. Those evil intelligent agent computer programs have already taken over health care!
 

sync0s

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You might as well move to some third world country. Doctors already use IDSS. Those evil intelligent agent computer programs have already taken over health care!
Your acronym yields way to many possibilities. Don't bother, however, it was a failed attempt at a straw man.
 

deprave

New Member
As a software developer I have to point out to you that the majority of programming is telling the program what to do if it fucks up or if the user fucks up. Computers do exactly what you tell them to do and thats actually a serious problem and the majoirty of the work in programming is working around that.

Example: Okay do this but if this and this is true do this instead but if this and this and this and this and this or this and that or this this and that happens do this instead.

So the biggest problem is people telling it to do the wrong thing or not being specific enough.....You get my drift....and a very simple tak has so many varibables and conditions this makes it impossible to program something very advanced correctly and most importantly effeciently and without error.
 

Canna Sylvan

Well-Known Member
As a software developer I have to point out to you that the majority of programming is telling the program what to do if it fucks up or if the user fucks up. Computers do exactly what you tell them to do and thats actually a serious problem and the majoirty of the work in programming is working around that.

Example: Okay do this but if this and this is true do this instead but if this and this and this and this and this or this and that or this this and that happens do this instead.

So the biggest problem is people telling it to do the wrong thing or not being specific enough.....You get my drift....and a very simple tak has so many varibables and conditions this makes it impossible to program something very advanced correctly and most importantly effeciently and without error.
Yeah, they're called catch and throws. If you do AI work, you'd know it's mostly premade packages where all that has been taken care of long ago using shell programs to test those interfaces. Most of AI work is the calculations and rule sets. It's more complicated than that, but no where near your doom and gloom. People working on majorly huge and advanced projects in AI rarely have problems getting programs working like planned. The problem is finding the correct method and idea. If those aren't correct, the best programming ain't doing shit. AI's problem is our detective skills and reverse engineering about the nature of how human like intelligence works, sucks.
 
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