What we miss about AI when we’re worried about killer robots
https://qz.com/1207270/what-we-miss-about-ai-when-were-worried-about-killer-robots/
At the American Museum of Natural History in New York last night (Feb. 13), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson took the stage with some of the world’s foremost experts in artificial intelligence, representatives from Google, IBM, MIT, iRobot, and the University of Michigan.
After they were all seated, Tyson had the lights dimmed, and then promptly undermined why the panelists were there in the first place. Tyson played a video from Boston Dynamics showing two four-legged robots, one with a long arm that opened a door for the other. The crowd murmured and cheered as the robots overcame the obstacle. Tyson implored the audience to read the comments on the video at home later.