Hwang: The public sees non-ML robots as AI, ignoring newsfeeds
Tim Hwang · A.I. Policy and Public Perception - Miles Brundage and Tim Hwang · Y Combinator · Apr 25, 2018 · at 9:58
Tim Hwang, Director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, discusses how public perception of AI diverges from actual technical implementations like algorithmic news feeds and non-learning robotics.
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“The newsfeed assuredly is AI, right? Like, it uses machine learning. It uses the latest machine learning to do what it does. We don't really think about it as AI, right? Whereas, like, the car is, like I mean, I think a lot of robots kind of fall into this category where even robots that don't involve any machine learning are thought of as AI, right? And, like, actually impact the discussion about AI despite not actually being related to it at all in, like, an absolute sense.”
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