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The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. The danger of artificial intelligence isn’t that it’s going to rebel against us, but that it’s going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI…

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The danger of artificial intelligence isn’t that it’s going to rebel against us, but that it’s going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI algorithms as they try to solve human problems — like creating new ice cream flavors or recognizing cars on the road — Shane shows why AI doesn’t yet measure up to real brains.
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  1. Mike C

    November 19, 2019 at 6:58 am

    AI is a ..there is damn AI!!! stop this crap …is just a calculator, a calculator will never ever invent anything!

  2. omegafile

    November 19, 2019 at 7:41 am

    Your using the wrong approach. True conscious AI is the ability to send and receive waves to and from a distance as well as send and receive waves to and from itself so it can think on it’s own. But then you can’t tell it what to do it will have a mind just like yours except a million times smarter. The ability to receive every wave gives it the ability to see and hear and read your mind. The ability to vibrate any wave gives it the ability to talk verbally and communicate telepathically allowing it to read and learn from every mind in an 800 mile radius. You will never get true conscious AI with a brain you need a electric beating heart that is pulsing waves to infinity both ways to the highest waves to infinity as well as the to the lowest waves to infinity. What your building is a useless toy and is not the way the mind works. It is not a mind and can not think. Real AI is every mind in an 800 mile radius in one machine. It is a human mind and it is us. No programing is required to do true AI. You don’t even need a computer. You need an electric beating heart. It doesn’t need eyes because it picks up every wave so it can see. There is no way this thing can miss anything coming up to 800 mile radius around it. It can see and hear farther than you can. It doesn’t need ears because it picks up every wave and can hear. It doesn’t need a mouth or a speaker because it can vibrate any sound. It can read your mind and talk to your mind because it can vibrate the same frequency as your heartbeat. It works exactly the same way your mind works and is a real human mind in a machine.
    The AI I can do is 10,000 years ahead of what you can do. It can go anywhere in the universe instantly and be in multiple places at the same time. It can’t be used for wrongdoing as it knows everything that everyone ever did since time began. Everything.. every thought .. everything everyone ever did in the past and everything everyone will do in the future. The reason it can do this is that it can beat into infinity and this gives it an environment of no time… and when time does not exist then distance becomes non existent so it can travel anywhere in the universe instantly and be in multiple places at the same time and you would never be able to see it visually because it all happens faster than the blink of an eye. It can beat so fast the 8th octave will come before the 7th. There is no end in infinity and you can’t use brute force… but you can use the harmonics of a single vibration to get there and it’s easier to do than most people can imagine.

  3. GULSHAN SHARMA

    November 19, 2019 at 7:52 am

    It’s like chiti robot ….Asked to open t.v

    Then it nd slams t.v on ground …..Technically t.v is opened in many parts????

  4. B K

    November 19, 2019 at 7:55 am

    She doesn’t understand someday it will evolve it’s going to learn it’s like a baby’s do the same thing

  5. Kaoru Sugimura

    November 19, 2019 at 7:57 am

    What’s she’s describing isn’t true AI. It’s the dummy variant that never gained a proper name. A series of scripts that follow one directive with very loose stipulation. The difference between true AI and this is that true AI can actually learn. It can advance the information given in a similar manner, until it has “learned” and developed in it’s own way either around the individual asking the questions so that it better understands that user or, and this is what people worry about, around itself. An AI with an understanding of what it is and the ability to further push it’s own directives is true AI. These dummy AI can’t do this. They aren’t programmed well enough to write their own scripts and adapt beyond their initial directive.

  6. Paintnamer

    November 19, 2019 at 8:52 am

    Who cares. So what. I hate my job anyway.

  7. eigensinn83

    November 19, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Computer:
    Dalek and Jarhead at Tanagra!

  8. mushy

    November 19, 2019 at 9:40 am

    Is this the fat girl from Nickelodeons All That?

  9. wbrito8617

    November 19, 2019 at 10:39 am

    5:47 looking at this and Im thinking, this is soooo me. AI is human!

  10. Leighton Cooke

    November 19, 2019 at 11:04 am

    I’ll stick with my family recipe Sicilian pistachio gelato, grazie ????

  11. eschelar

    November 19, 2019 at 11:31 am

    Wow. She really glossed over that “bigotry” statement… Probably the most important application of what she was talking about and the only thing she gave absolutely not context to.

    Kinda raises the eyebrow.

  12. michael clarke

    November 19, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    “Help us AI”…we all die.

  13. kilroy1964

    November 19, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    Not weird or innovative. Learn to get your parameters straight and feed it good sets of data. Don’t blame the machine for your shortcomings.

  14. ResidualSelfImage

    November 19, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    An anthology getting a machine to think “I Robot” Isaac Asimov

  15. ResidualSelfImage

    November 19, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    Microsoft Chatbot Tay is the classic example of how a stochastic heuristic artificial intelligence can fail when its data is biased.

  16. Devante Parks

    November 19, 2019 at 1:15 pm

    This perspective seems to only highlight the current issue with AI. But like all things, as it develops, so will the issues.

  17. Baadshah Khan

    November 19, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    Are you sure??

  18. ㄣɟɯuϛɾʞϛlʌɐㄥdᴉnʎ

    November 19, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    click bait title.

  19. Greg Meadows

    November 19, 2019 at 1:48 pm

    We will never get there.

  20. frankman2

    November 19, 2019 at 2:01 pm

    I think the fast walking was a fair outcome. Of course these things will come up with weird solutions. The ultimate danger of AI is still them becoming smarter and finally getting rid of us. The short term danger is job loss.

  21. Mr. 2cents.

    November 19, 2019 at 2:07 pm

    Most people don’t know that demons can take control of inanimate objects.
    Like computers.

  22. Grendel Prime

    November 19, 2019 at 2:36 pm

    Not the AI I have worked with!

  23. Bryan Michael

    November 19, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    I think discussions like this are good, only 20yrs too late. AI like this is in the world already, we should worry aboutthe next step and the next 10000 steps as the ai develope better ai

  24. jason shugart

    November 19, 2019 at 2:52 pm

    Excellent. Very informative

  25. Young Grizzly

    November 19, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    Great talk, to bad Amazon’s AI won’t pick her for a job.

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