As some
would have it, robots are poised to take over the world in about 3 ... 2 ... 1
...
But one
machine-learning expert — who is, after all, in a position to know — thinks
that’s not the biggest issue facing artificial intelligence. In fact, it’s not
an issue at all.
“I am
personally not worried about an AI apocalypse, as I consider that a completely
made-up fear,” Jeff Dean, a senior fellow at Google, wrote during a Reddit AMA
on Aug. 11. “I am concerned about the lack of diversity in the AI research
community and in computer science more generally.” (Emphasis his.)
Ding, ding,
ding. The issue that the tech industry is trying to maneuver their way around,
for better or worse, is the same issue that can stunt the progress of
“humanistic thinking” in the development of artificial intelligence, according
to Dean.
For the
optimists in the audience, Google Brain wants to improve lives, Dean wrote. And
how can you improve lives without people with diverse perspectives and
backgrounds helping to build and develop the technology you hope will impact
positive change? (Answer: You can’t.)
“One of the
things I really like about our Brain Residency program is that the residents
bring a wide range of backgrounds, areas of expertise (e.g. we have physicists,
mathematicians, biologists, neuroscientists, electrical engineers, as well as
computer scientists), and other kinds of diversity to our research efforts,”
Dean wrote.
“In my
experience, whenever you bring people together with different kinds of
expertise, different perspectives, etc., you end up achieving things that none
of you could do individually, because no one person has the entire skills and
perspective necessary.”
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