The development of AI

 

Rumman Chowdhury. David J. Phillip / AP  

 

AI Expert: Don't Shift Moral Responsibility to Technology  

 

Can ethical monitoring exist? Data scientist Rumman Chowdhury, who is described by The Guardian as one of the heaviest voices in the development of AI, does not think so.  

 

Chowdhury says in an interview with the newspaper that she worries about the rise of surveillance capitalism and believes that the technology is unequivocally racist. But she does not think that the values should be attributed to the technology - but to the people behind it. 

 

- You would never say "my racist toaster" or "my sexist laptop", she said in a Ted Talk quoted in the article.  

 

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IntelliMan Researchers in Italy will teach robots to feel  

 

Emotion is a human mind – but now researchers in Bologna, Italy, are going to teach the trait to robots.  

 

That's what El País writes. The aim is for the machines to learn to distinguish what they are touching and to be able to use just the right amount of pressure. The goal is that they can later be used as prosthetic hands and eventually in household robots.  

 

In an EU-funded project, the researchers are trying to give robot hands two different types of tactile abilities: A slightly coarser tactile surface in the palm and more finely sensitive surfaces over the fingertips.  

 

In theory, it works flawlessly, says researcher Roberto Meattini. But in reality, it is difficult to determine exactly how robotic hands will touch, for example, a fruit.  

 

- It is artificial intelligence based on probability [...] But the real world is not probabilistic, it is not a formula.