Reality is catching up to fictionShare How do you teach a machine right from wrong? Like much of the frontier thinking on the morality of artificial intelligence, McEwan’s unsettling vision comes from fiction, not science. Corporations that stand to benefit most from artificial intelligence have taken keen notice. How do you teach a machine right from wrong, not just in a particular case, but in general? But it’s a tricky word, “code,” with connotations of strict, unforgiving determinism that is at odds with the open-ended promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Source: National Post May 30, 2019 17:15 UTC