From Nautilus, Dark Matter issue via Azeem Azhar:
“…Artificial intelligence has been conquering hard problems at a relentless pace lately (…) neural network has equaled or even surpassed human beings at tasks like discovering new drugs, finding the best candidates for a job, and even driving a car.
(…) some hard problems make neural nets respond in ways that aren’t understandable.
(…) Not knowing how or why a machine did something strange leaves us unable to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
But the occasional unexpected weirdness of machine “thought” might also be a teaching moment for humanity. (…) they might show us how intelligence works outside the constraints of our species’ limitations. (…)” read full article