Do you even know your checks and balances? This is not about government, it's about court. Facebook only has to pay because individuals (or in that case, a privacy organisation) decided to sue Facebook

What do we do against this?

“Most real-world strategic interactions involve hidden information" "Tay’s objective was to engage people, and it did. “What unfortunately Tay discovered,” Domingos said, “is that the best way to maximize engagement is to spew out racist insults.”"

So, even if the next Tay has "behave in a civilised manner" as a objective function, it will be hard to implement as the ethical rules we presume in reality are not written out as the rules of a video game. In fact, they involve many grey areas and not so many strict right-or-wrong-statements.

That's actually a point the author makes - he sees an AI as a tool for the artist, not as an creative subject on its own. I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do". Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.

That's actually a point the author makes - he sees AIs as a tool for the author, not as a author itself. I found it highly interesting to read about a writer's perspective on text producing AIs. Especially the part where its output suddenly was "I don't know what you want me to do". Part 2 - where he presents a sci-fi short film with a plot written by AI - is also a interesting read.

"It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system."

I think that a women quota is useful in cases where the proportion of female (one could also insert specific cultural backgrounds here) possible applicants for a role (be it junior or leader) is much higher than the proportion in the actual role. For instance, in theatres or hospitals in Germany, a large part of the employees is female whilst the bosses tend to be male. You cannot argue with "but better candidates will be turned down just because they are male" because obviously, the criteria for choosing are heavily unbalanced already. It's harder to determine whether a quota is useful in jobs the reason for not choosing women might be women not applying for the job. But we won't solve the matter by hating each other over the cause. Let's try to be critical, yet empathic.

The very existence of a quota is sex discrimination against both men and women.

It means that this statement: "Apple wants their customers to feel like someone has their back" might be applied to Google, too, to a more limited degree.

You don't have to turn all cultural characteristics into money.

My prediction is that this is wrong. They'll be able to understand widely used terms, but once you start speaking in a more creative way it will fail. At least if there is no change in the construction of AI - because the subtleties of everyday language are not 'understandable' just via empirics. Reading tip: Douglas Hofstadter's article "The Shallowness of Google Translate".

Thanks, it was interesting.

From the article: "To my mind, translation is an incredibly subtle art that draws constantly on one’s many years of experience in life, and on one’s creative imagination."

This is true, I just think that we'll arrive at the tools to accomplish this in the future.

Specifically I think(hope) it will be through clever application of GANS and reinforcement learning after a few more applications of moore's law.

Advanced AI would be able to learn about us through replaying years of possible generated experiences.