Automating Artificial Intelligence
“. . . imagine yourself sitting on a couch, conversing with an artificially intelligent psychotherapist who interacts with you from a screen across the room.” According to this piece, such an example of artificial intelligence is a threat. But “talking” with a psychotherapist “machine” probably wasn’t the best choice to illustrate the point. In the Netherlands, mental health patients prefer talking to a robot rather than a psychiatrist, as one study showed. Fears of automated systems have long existed, as have fears of “artificial intelligence,” well before that term surfaced at a 1956 Dartmouth College symposium. Nevertheless, social acceptance, along with accumulated knowledge, apparent need, and available capital, is how change occurs, and it’s always useful to be aware of fears. MORE
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