{"id":389,"date":"2019-12-21T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=389"},"modified":"2019-12-21T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:26:12","slug":"ai-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"AI Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Image by <\/em>Oberholster Venita<\/em><\/a> from <\/em>Pixabay<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christmas holidays are coming and it’s a busy time in academia. The old semester is coming to an end, deadlines pile up, papers need to be written, economy reported, new semester to start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year I though a\nbit about making a reflection on what has happened in 2019. Well, the biggest\nthing was the AI Competence project. It took a lot of time to prepare and a lot\nof persons to coordinate. It’s also been a super exciting time as I’ve learned\na lot about AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We organized\nseminars and courses about AI in Law, AI in journalism, AI in schools.\nBasically, it turned out that AI is everywhere and influences all kinds of\nprofessions. The last seminar is about AI and ethics. I’m not very good with\nethics so I will not talk about that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I would like to\ntalk about AI and holidays. Yes, it is half-serious, but it’s holiday season\ncoming up, so let’s see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let’s look at the concept of trustworthiness (10.1109\/MITP.2019.2913265<\/a>). AI can be trustworthy or not, we can also\ntrust it or not. If we look at the confusion matrix based on that, we could\nquickly see that the most problmatic challenge is when we trust AI and it\ncannot be trusted. Then we can be fooled and it can have disastrous consequence\n– we can get killed if we trust an AI that flies a plane and it is malicious. I\ndo not believe this is very likely, but can happen – who knows whether the\nsoftware we construct is actually wishing us well? In a 100 million LOC software\nwe cannot really check that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second,\nholidays are often about forgetting sins and those that trespass against us.\nSo, can we teach AI to forget (https:\/\/futurism.com\/how-to-make-ai-forget<\/a>). One big issue a few years ago was the so-called “right to be\nforgotten”, i.e. The right of an individual to ask to be removed from\nsearch histories, etc. Can we ask AI to forget us? And if it does now show\nresults related to us, has it really forgotten? And if it forgets, does it only\nforget the “bad” things and not the “good” ones? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, holidays are\noften about being grateful for something. We’re often grateful for our\nfamilies, health, life, friends. We can be grateful for basically anything.\nBut, can AI be grateful? Does Ai have friends? Does it need a family? I don’t\nthink it does, and what does it mean? I guess that we can still see what will\nhappen, but I hope that AI systems will start to understand the need of these\nvalues. In cases of AlphaGo or AlphaStar, where different types of algorithms\nwere linked together (reinforced learning and deep learning), did these two\nalgorithms understood that they need each other to succeed? This is as close to\nfriendship as I could find about AI, but I have not found any evidence about\ngratefulness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nguess that the concept of forgiveness is also important. Most of us do not\nreflect about it, but let’s look at a simple case of kids using internet. They\nmake mistakes – they are kids, they learn – is it fair that their mistakes can\nbe remembered forever (http:\/\/www.kasparov.com\/ai-never-forgets-so-we-must-teach-it-to-forgive-avast-blog-post-september-22nd-2019\/<\/a>). Wired took up this topic (https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-next-big-privacy-hurdle-teaching-ai-to-forget\/<\/a>) and raised a concern that we can never be forgotten. Once our data\nenters the super-complex machinery of AI and algorithms, they are trained,\nadjusted, customized, this data can never leave that system. Maybe it will not\nbe linked to us, but it will never be forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, to sum up. I\nthink that AI is not ready for the world. The world is maybe ready for the AI.\nWe are happy that our holiday bookings are done through AI, planes are\nscheduled using AI and flown by them. However, we can compare an AI to a person\nwho takes everything as true and never forgets. Kind of kaptain Kirk from Star\nTrek. Would this person like a holiday season? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let’s be happy and grateful that the AI, in a general sense, lives inside computers and does not walk around our world. Our holidays are, most certainly, better because of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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