The fear of AI

There is a lot of scaremongering about the "malicious applications" of this technology

Devangshu Datta 

Devangshu Datta

Fear-mongering about Artificial Intelligence has become commonplace as AI adoption has spread. In mid-February, there was a storm when an open-source AI developer postponed putting one of its products into public domain due to concerns of misuse.

OpenAI is a San-Francisco based non-profit organisation with a hundred-person team and funding from billionaires Vinod Khosla, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc. Its mission is to “ensure that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity”, as and when AGI arrives. The OpenAI definition of AGI is “highly ...

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First Published: Sun, April 07 2019. 21:08 IST