How much would you trust an A.I.?

Google has acquired an A.I. Company and have also been buying up robotics companies. Car companies are working on cars that can drive themselves.

Also computers have partial control of a lot of things in our lives, our cars, aeroplanes, traffic lights to name a few.

Would you place full trust in a car to drive you to your destination?

Also in the future can you see humans relinquishing full control to an A.I. to run certain things like public transport, the manufacturing of cars, washing machines, mobile phones etc?

I trust them as long as their programmings don't get tampered with...

Edit: On second thought, not really. Some people got too much time on their hands and they probably would find ways to hack A.I.'s. That may end up becoming a big problem...

As long it serves me well without any malfunctions lol

A perfect A.I. is smart as a rock

things can always go wrong, whether it's a human in charge or a machine. when we reach a point that statistically the machine is less likely to **** up than the human, i'm on board.

Do you have any idea how many "easter eggs" have been programmed into video games alone by their actual developers that the publishers didn't know about? You don't need tampering to get malicious code.

-Byshop

I'll only trust it if the car is on a track and there's little room for error.

AI will never replace human intelligence in my eyes. AI cannot reason like the human mind, and if I'm in a situation where I need to react fast, my instinct takes over. AI lacks that ability. I'm fine with the way things are now when it comes to automobiles. I don't want a car that can park and drive itself.

I have a problem with that too, but that's just me being irrational. At least with Google cars, they've already been through a shitload of testing and their safety record speaks for itself. They're safe as hell.

Having said that, I'd still want to be able to override the AI and take control for myself should the need arise.

mark my words.

self driving cars are going to revolutionize road safety.

They already have a stellar safety record, and that's with them driving among unpredictable humans.

Once these things start becoming more common, the obvious next step would be to have them communicate with each other. This would enable every car to know exactly what every other car around it is about to do, making accidents virtually impossible.

Until there's a malfunction in one of the car's computers...

Would you really want to place that much faith in something in which you have no control over? I know I wouldn't.

it is going be amazing to be in this generation of people that don't have to give up their mobility when they get to old to drive.

the future is pretty freakin' sweet.

No, I would never trust a Cylon.

In which case, the other cars merely react to what is happening. That's the exact same thing as what Google's cars have to deal with now, and their safety record is phenomenal.

Furthermore, that's the exact same thing that HUMANS have to deal with now. Except that humans get distracted, have slow reaction times, etc.

If you drive now, you have zero control of the jerks on the road. But you still go on the road and drive. Any way you cut it, switching to self-driving cars is going to drastically increase road safety and cut down on accidents. Even with the occasional error or malfunction, it'll be a statistically far safer system than having a bunch of humans drive around like idiots.

@MrGeezer: yeh I agree the amount of error in humans driving normal cars would far out weigh the amount of malfunctions there would be in A.I. Controlled cars.

Humans tend to; drink and drive, text and talk on the phone while driving(which can be worse than drink driving), they drive tired and fall asleep at the wheel, get distracted looking at a hot piece of ass, misjudge time and distance, run red lights, speed.

With A.I. You would cut out all of that.

I would trust it more than a human that's for sure.

You people put way too much trust in technology.

I would trust EDI but not the terminator.

Not at all, unless I have control over it's programming.

nope, i just put a lot less trust in stupid people.

What about a fully autonomous railway system?

I'd like to date an AI hottie. So then I can terminate her.

Depends on the level of "AI" you are talking about: if you're talking about the limited kind that already serves a variety of purposes today, then sure. But if you're talking fully-sentient science fiction AI, then hell no.

Good AI is incredibly complicated and I do trust things that are overly complicated, a bit like any software really, it's always going to have bugs especially when it's reading from sensors and trying to interpret stuff on it's own, that is the least trustworthy thing about AI. It's supposed to gather data and then perform an action based on the data.

@Motokid6: trains are still driven by humans, aren't they? you also have ticket sales people, you could potentially do away with humans and just have ticket machines and automated trains, maybe just have a few guys in a control room, if there was any malfunctions a alert could be sent instantly to a control room and the train good be stopped from the control room. And any other trains could be re directed, you could even have a A.I running the control room.

Exactly. I hope self-driving cars take over soon.

just yesterday my wife and i were driving to the store and there was a woman next to us in here car driving 45-50mpg with both hands off the wheel texting on here phone, occasionally looking up to see the car was still moving in the general direction she wanted. a minute or two later we saw the same woman again both hands off the wheel fixing her hair.

with dipshits like that driving around, we can't get good AI for cars fast enough.

not for driving i won't

but for a train or something yeah