Google acquires another A.I. company ... Why do we live in a world where ...

[vivster]

Darth Tigris said:

vivster said:

Darth Tigris said:

No, people were dead serious about Kinect spying, MS being anti-consumer not wanting us to own anything, etc.  Stop downplaying it now that's it's past.

Nobody is even talking about it.  That's the point.  There's more discussion about the differences between the PS4 and XBO versions of Tomb Raider right now than stuff like this.

So what, I take it you're one of those that thinks these purchases are completely harmless and there's nothing to be worried about then, eh?

People who were concerned about their privacy because of kinect are complete idiots swept away by the usual media scare.

And yes I'm not worried in the least about these purchases. Google buys a lot of stuff. But of course in the eyes of someone like you robots and their AI can only be used for evil. And of course would google only have world domination in mind.

I think you shouldn't be worried about the open purchases google makes but rather the stuff that google does that you don't know ;)

People on these very forums, Kotaku, NeoGAF were all over that stuff and so very much more.  MS was labeled evil for friggin' DRM!

No, no, nonononono.  You are reading this all wrong.  This isn't about Google being evil, it's about them being naive and arrogant.  They are barrelling down a path without considering the fallout.  They said that they formed an ethics board to oversee it's use of A.I. (likely a stipulation of the purchase of DeepMind) this late in the game.  We chuckle about them building a Terminator future without even considering that in that fictional universe nobody was INTENDING that to happen when they were busy building an A.I. and military robots.

I recommend giving this a read.  I'm not a conspiracy guy, and don't really think one is happening here.  This isn't a situation of malice but one of hubris.  Of course that distinction won't matter once things go bad.

I don't care for such things. Because I have better stuff to do, we can't stop it anyway and I'm probably dead when it all goes really downhill.

The real scare are not the robots. Before they can even reach a certain level of sentience humanity will have much more severe sociological and ethical problems. That's partly because the robots taking more and more jobs and humans neglecting their social obligations for virtual reality.