By Sam Ingersoll, April 2017.
In recent months, some of the leading science and tech minds have warned against the creation of unregulated corporate artifical intelligence, but how could such an intelligence actually be created? The artificial intelligences we see today play games like Chess and Go (very well, mind you), recommend things for us to buy on sites like Amazon, and tag us in our friends’ pictures on Facebook. These are very sophisticated machine learning models that can accomplish incredible feats –like identifying dog breeds solely by the sound of their bark with 94.44% accuracy (Pabico et al.)– but could today’s neural networks really give rise to a mind?
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