Neil Jacobstein chairs the artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics track at Singularity University on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) Research Park campus in Mountain View, California. In an interview, Jacobstein talks about the confusion around AI, how job losses from AI should be tackled and the possibilities of a brighter future for humanity. Today, we have AI that is already at human levels of problem-solving in very narrow domains such as chess or go (a Japanese board game) or certain kinds of medical diagnostics. So we don’t have AI with natural language understanding at human level, and we don’t have AI that has humour or empathy at human levels. The challenge is to create a world where, instead of having a world of haves and have-nots, we have a world of haves and super-haves.

Source: Mint May 11, 2017 19:41 UTC