tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402273.post7045540528554760126..comments2024-03-22T08:07:47.253+00:00Comments on Alan Winfield's Web Log: Energy and Exploitation: AIs dirty secretsAlan Winfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263812573346115168noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402273.post-72525166399131857832020-12-15T09:02:09.137+00:002020-12-15T09:02:09.137+00:00Thanks for sharing these very interesting consider...Thanks for sharing these very interesting considerations!! I only disagree about the negative conclusion on the "ethics of AI". AI (unline in books and movies like I, Robot and Blade Runner) has no ethics. Humans (e.g. company managers and consumers) do.<br />Worker exploitation has nothing to do with the underlying technology, which by and far is neutral (nothing in AI algorithms implies that linguists must be paid less than programmers; in fact, since accurate labeling is at the basis of the "quality" of all ML, while algorithms are inherently robust to noise, linguists should be paid more :-) ).<br />The fact that most of our fruit and vegetables are picked by illegal immigrants from Africa or Mexico, depending on the continent, does not mean that eating them is immoral. :-) :-)<br />In both cases we, as consumers, must make companies legally responsible for the fairness of their employment practices, and workers must unite again, rather than competing against each other, to ensure fair wages.<br />In that respect, we are just beginning to understand how workers' rights can be guaranteed in an (unavoidably) globalized world. I can only hope that progress in that domain, supported by the kind of consumer awareness that you rightly advocate, will be almost as swift as the technological progress that we have witnessed.Luciano Lavagno (3B elementari)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06984701545411863120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402273.post-10131561949769231702019-08-01T20:10:03.797+01:002019-08-01T20:10:03.797+01:00The more you look at it the less spectacular AI se...The more you look at it the less spectacular AI seems. While there's obviously a lot of potential is there yet any industrial application of machine learning, neural networks etc..., which can't be handled better by a normal hard coded program with a human defined set of rules? Evolved algorithms have the clear advantage that while they weren't human produced they are still human readable and can be, when necessary, modified to fix bugs, or simply used as inspiration for a human coded piece of software to be based upon. Neural networks on the other hand look like they work fine, right up until a black dot turns a banana into a toaster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com