Losing Control Of The Robots

Here is a recent report which asks whether we're losing control of our future robot overloads (of course we are):

The first generation of Robots we are familiar so far with were programmed by Humans.

Now we are at a new stage of robotics when programmed robots are replaced by Machine Learned Robots. The core idea of MLR is that a machine (not a human) builds algorithms to be used for future decision-making while using some past “learning” data. The goal of MLR is to design an efficient algorithm that statistically gives the right answer “almost always”. But here we face a problem …

1. “Almost always” doesn’t mean ALWAYS  - MLR decisions are not intended to be always right, just good enough in the majority of cases. Now think about your kitchen robot who every morning makes perfect scrambled eggs to you and yet, “only” once in 1,000 times puts a fire to your house … What would you say to that?
2. The human can’t understand the reasoning of MLR-built algorithms.
3. The human can’t intervene into MLR-built robot -  how do you know if the perceived “wrong move” is not the only right one? Humans have no such speed nor the amount of info

There is a lot of food for thought and sometimes we get goosebumps at the clear realization that the robot revolution is happening now, that the world is simply spiraling out of control. But we shall not freak out about it. Whenever there are concerns, there are opportunities.

You can read the rest @
https://hackernoon.com/are-people-losing-control-over-robots-38b6af76a889

I think the developers of AI/robots are like ARSONISTS. They pretend to have started a "controlled burn" which they allege will have immense benefits for humanity, but the fire is about to get out of control and cause irreparable damage. And what is their response to the destruction they are causing?

"There are opportunities".

Jeez !!!

STOP THIS CRAP NOW !!! Or there soon may be none of us left to lament that we didn't.