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The only controls available to those on board were two push-buttons on the center post of the cabin—
one labeled on and one labeled off.
The on button simply started a flight from Mars.
The off button was connected to nothing.
It was installed at the insistence of Martian mental-health experts, who said that human beings were always happier with machinery they thought they could turn off.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
As shocking as that might initially seem, we should not to be totally surprised.
Seven years of AI has taught us that deep learning is unpredictable, and not always human like.
“Adversarial attacks” like these have shown remarkable weakness, time and again, repeatedly establishing that what deep learning systems do just isn’t the same as what people do:
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David Beats Go-Liath
Gary Marcus
The Beautiful Abyss
Swirling Visions
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