May 182019
Teaching AI how to feel FEAR could make autonomous cars better drivers, study suggests
It’s the Daily Fail, so Accuracy May Vary. The actual researchers don’t seem to be trying to instill fear into machines, but instead are simply teaching the machines to examine human reactions to situations including those involving fear as a way to teach self-driving cars to avoid dangerous situations. One one level… yeah, sure, I can see that. On the other hand, if the AIs do actually become self aware at some point, it probably won’t have been such a good idea to have made sure that the first emotion humans taught them was fear. You really don’t want our future overlords to look at us as Terribly Bad Critters.