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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHawking warned alien life might be like us...
and dangerous to our health and well-being. Seems like alien life we are constructing could be equally like us. (One reason why males should NOT build a male sex robot).
...researchers have demonstrated how machines can be reflections of us, their creators, in potentially problematic ways. Common machine learning programs, when trained with ordinary human language available online, can acquire cultural biases embedded in the patterns of wording, the researchers found. These biases range from the morally neutral, like a preference for flowers over insects, to the objectionable views of race and gender.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-biased-bots-human-prejudices-artificial.html#jCp
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Hawking warned alien life might be like us... (Original Post)
oldcynic
Apr 2017
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marybourg
(12,650 posts)1. A preference for flowers over insects
is morally neutral?
Coventina
(27,224 posts)2. Didn't we learn that from the Twitter-bot that became racist and sexist within 24 hours of its
"birth"?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)3. So only woman can build male sex robots, who will build the female bots?
oldcynic
(385 posts)5. humans have sex in their brains
Think about where male and female brains are located. I'm waiting for a male sex robot that will cuddle and wash dishes. Men always think size matters.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)4. In essence, innate human nature is self destructive! It's endemic to the human species.
Proof: It's all over earth!