AI Must Reads #1 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and related fields are in a constant state of change. We want to inform but also encourage discussions on well presented topics we think are necessary in the context of putting AI into production. Every month we’re picking applied AI’s most engaging articles plus curating related ones according to the topic.
1. Never Mind Killer Robots — Here Are Six Real AI Dangers To Watch Out For In 2019
Author s— Will Knight and Karen Hao via MIT Technology Review
Once it was fashionable to fret about the prospect of super-intelligent machines taking over the world. The past year showed that AI may cause all sorts of hazards long before that happens. The latest AI methods excel at perceptual tasks such as classifying images and transcribing speech, but the hype and excitement over these skills have disguised how far we really are from building machines as clever as we are. Six controversies from 2018 stand out as warnings that even the smartest AI algorithms can misbehave, or that carelessly applying them can have dire consequences. Read on…
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2. Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI
Authors — Nick Obradovich, William Powers, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan via The Boston Globe
Back in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when the fossil fuel industry and other corporate polluters came under fire for harming the environment, the polluters launched massive ad campaigns portraying themselves as friends of the earth. This cynical practice was later dubbed “greenwashing.” Read on…
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3. An AI Reading list — from practical primers to Sci-Fi short stories
Author — James Vincent via The Verge
Experts are already building a future world brimming with artificial intelligence, but here in the present most of us are still trying to figure out what AI even is. This is a technology that will influence many aspects of our lives, from jobs to entertainment to health care, but that also engages with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Questions like, “what is the nature of creativity?” and “how do we define consciousness?” Posing the question “how can I understand AI?” is nearly as daunting as asking “what is the meaning of life?”
In order to help, check out The Verge’s reading list
