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The Dark Side of A.I.
CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and chairman of SolarCity Elon Musk, consider Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) a game-changer. According to him, “If you aren’t concerned about A.I. safety, you should be. It poses a far greater threat than North Korea.”
Artificial Intelligence has become a quintenssial way of our everyday lives. When we observe robots that respond in the same way that people do or computers that outperform humans in strategy and cognition, we are paving the way for a future in which humanity will have to accept robot overlords.
Popular science fiction films such as “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Bicentennial Man,” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015) are red flags. These films have speculated on A.I. surpassing its creators’ expectations and escaping their control, outcompeting and enslaving their human creators, or attempting to annihilate them.
Think again if you thought A.I. was limited to frightening us on the big screen. Norman, the world’s first “psychopathic artificial intelligence” developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers (MIT). Norman is an image-detection robot named after Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s blockbuster horror film Psycho. True to its namesake, Alfred Hitchcock’s Norman Bates, MIT’s psychopathic Norman, is pessimistic and lacks optimism.
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