The better the problem is understood, the better the outcome will be.
These imaginations of self-thinking machines were interesting, amusing, and at times creepy and threatening.. As AI enters a new realm where there are artificial systems that can make independent decisions, a light has been thrown on as much about the guiding purpose, ethics, and morals of such systems, as the technological capability..In the Ethics Unit of my Business Module, I present and discuss data presented in Nature 2018.
Through global interviews a team sought to discover, in a life-or-death situation, who people would prioritise to save.Was it the young, the old, the fit, the lawful, humans over animals?The idea was to investigate the embedded moral decisions made by autonomous cars in dangerous situations.
The results are interesting in that they showed, unsurprisingly that different individuals and cultures gave different responses.Whose do we use?
These decisions have real-life implications.. ‘We better be sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose we really desire,’ Norbert Weiner stated in 1960..
In 2021, Stewart Russell OBE (Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley) in his Reith Lectures expressed some principles that he had co-developed to make the development of AI positive and safe.. Altruism – AI is there solely to improve human outcomes and purpose.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesClick the 'play button' above to listen to this Built Environment Matters podcast episode featuring.
Jaimie Johnston MBE., or read our 5 Key Takeaways from this episode below.... 1.. Industrialised Construction is no longer optional.
Amy and Jaimie emphasised that the shift towards industrialised construction is not just a trend—it’s a necessity.With growing pressures from sustainability goals, workforce challenges, and cost efficiency demands, traditional construction methods are proving inadequate.
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