(TRUNEWS) On March 23, Microsoft launched an artificial intelligent (AI) chat bot on twitter called TayTweets, and within hours, anonymous individuals had hijacked the experiment.
Because the program was not built with contingencies meant to handle inappropriate questions or information gathering, like a human brain for instance, by asking the AI bot something in a specific manner people were able to get responses regarding Holocaust denial, 9/11 conspiracies and incest.
On their project website, the Microsoft development team stated the bot was designed to conduct research on “conversational understanding” through engaging and entertaining people with playful conversation.
Once enough complaints came in, Microsoft pulled the plug on the TayandYou account, saying in a statement:
“Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay’s commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments.”
Microsoft also deleted the most offensive tweets.
A Microsoft logo is seen at a pop-up site for the new Windows 10 operating system at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York July 29, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
PROBLEMS WITH AI
As new technological advancements in computer processing and artificial intelligence develop in sophistication, many wonder if this research is safe. Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, wrote in his 2005 book “The Singularity Is Near”, that the exponential growth of AI will lead to a technological singularity where machine intelligence will overpower its human counterpart.
In an interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff published on March 24, Kurzweil heralded AI as a solution to humanity’s woes, saying “we’re going to be able to overcome disease and aging”, and humans “will be able to extend our longevity indefinitely”.
Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Tesla Motors’ founder Elon Musk and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and prominent linguist Noam Chomsky don’t share Kurzweil’s optimism for AI development.
In an open letter announced July 28, 2015, at the opening of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2015 conference in Buenos Aires, great thinkers from around the world signed and endorsed an initiative to raise awareness around the potential threats of uninhibited AI development.
It warned that AI in conjunction with the military could cause “the third revolution in warfare,” noting that “if any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow”.
The letter has been signed by 20806 people, all of whom are either researchers in the field of AI and Robotics or closely associated with the industry and silicon valley development.
Stephen Hawking took this message one step further, saying in an interview with BBC in 2014 that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis says Hawking’s fear is fueled by his belief in evolution, noting a BBC interview with Hawking. AI is “It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded,” he was addressing the issue from a secular perspective.
“It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded,” Hawking said, addressing the issue from a secular perspective.
British physicist Stephen Hawking sits at his desk in the Applied Mathematics Department of Cambridge University August 30, 2012. REUTERS/Guillermo Granja/Vice Presidency of Ecuador/Handout
CONCLUSION
From a Christian perspective, Ham notes that although man is creating smarter machines with developing forms of artificial intelligence, it still pales in comparison to human intelligence. For all the AI that has been made, “no one has been able to create artificial life,” Ham wrote in an Op-Ed addressing this issue. “That’s because life is a gift from God, ‘He gives to all life, breath, and all things’ (Acts 17:25). ‘Man is made in the image of God’ (Genesis 1:27), so we’re different from AI. Man will never be able to make a conscious being like us since those qualities come from being made in God’s image, and AI is not made in the image of God,” Ham concluded.
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