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OfflineGazzBut
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When future Watsons play politics
    #14058494 - 03/03/11 05:47 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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An interesting article on the possible roles in politics of advanced "Watson" like super computers in the future. The author suggests large corporations and governments could use such machines to actually come up with positions and issue press releases etc based on their ability to actually understand language and also their access to huge data sets.

How about a supercomputer that actually makes all the decisions instead? In the future, when these machines exist,  if one was given access the sum of human knowledge and could also have an inventory of total earth resources at its disposal, what kind of changes to our current system would it suggest? Would it suggest scrapping what we have and starting again? Would you be willing to go along with its suggestions if they were presented in an immaculately logical fashion? even if it meant discarding your favourite beliefs?

I would imagine that a super computer would come up with a whole new system of social and economic organisation that would not bear much resemblance to any existing systems or theories. Would definitely be an interesting experiment anyway...


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OfflineAtomsk
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Re: When future Watsons play politics [Re: GazzBut]
    #14059537 - 03/03/11 11:45 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

The unabomber warned us.

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OfflineTheThinker
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Re: When future Watsons play politics [Re: Atomsk]
    #14059558 - 03/03/11 11:49 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

Skynet.

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OfflineFriskies

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Re: When future Watsons play politics [Re: TheThinker]
    #14059720 - 03/03/11 12:26 PM (13 years, 2 months ago)

I don't see what the problem is. I know and have great faith that the leaders of our country will keep this from becoming any kind of problem.
After all our leaders are here to keep us safe. :laugh:


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OfflineScreaming Eagle
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Re: When future Watsons play politics [Re: Friskies]
    #14064320 - 03/04/11 01:27 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

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Friskies said:
I don't see what the problem is. I know and have great faith that the leaders of our country will keep this from becoming any kind of problem.
After all our leaders are here to keep us safe. :laugh:




I agree completely.  Our President will keep us safe from any threat, human or otherwise.

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OfflineGazzBut
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Re: When future Watsons play politics [Re: Screaming Eagle]
    #14064371 - 03/04/11 01:45 AM (13 years, 2 months ago)

The point is not so much whether skynet will take over the planet but more what kind of optimal system of societal organisation would a hyper advanced AI come up with and how would it differ from our current systems.


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