No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
https://gizmodo.com/no-facebook-did-not-panic-and-shut-down-an-ai-program-1797414922
In recent weeks, a story about experimental Facebook machine learning research has been circulating with increasingly panicky, Skynet-esque headlines.
“Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language,” one site wrote. “Facebook shuts down down AI after it invents its own creepy language,” another added. “Did we humans just create Frankenstein?” asked yet another. One British tabloid quoted a robotics professor saying the incident showed “the dangers of deferring to artificial intelligence” and “could be lethal” if similar tech was injected into military robots.
No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
Aug 1, 2017, 12:40pm UTC
https://gizmodo.com/no-facebook-did-not-panic-and-shut-down-an-ai-program-1797414922
>In recent weeks, a story about experimental Facebook machine learning research has been circulating with increasingly panicky, Skynet-esque headlines.
>“Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language,” one site wrote. “Facebook shuts down down AI after it invents its own creepy language,” another added. “Did we humans just create Frankenstein?” asked yet another. One British tabloid quoted a robotics professor saying the incident showed “the dangers of deferring to artificial intelligence” and “could be lethal” if similar tech was injected into military robots.