Uber earlier this year pulled its self-driving cars off the road when one of them hit and killed a pedestrian.

Frustration with the reliability of Siri, the iPhone’s virtual assistant, for example, has led to limited use of the feature and a general perception that Apple’s software prowess lags its competitors.īut mistakes associated with artificial intelligence can also have tragic consequences. On the one end, there are the economic consequences. The real-world stakes associated with whether humans trust machines vary widely. Students found it in themselves to accept the flaws in other people, but not in the machine. After both began making bad predictions, however, students were much faster to disregard the computer in subsequent trials than the human. They had the option to receive help from either an “advanced” computer system or a human specialist.

Researchers asked a group of undergraduate students to forecast scheduling for hospital rooms. That’s the case even though the overwhelming evidence suggests these new technologies perform better than humans at some of the same tasks.Ī 2016 study out of the University of Wisconsin sought to test individuals’ tolerance for mistakes made by artificial intelligence software. Recent research has found that people demand a much higher success rate from robots than from their flesh-and-bone counterparts. In a Pew Research survey last year, 72 percent of Americans said they were at least somewhat worried of a world where machines perform many of the tasks traditionally done by humans. Studies paint a picture of deep skepticism for robotic assistants. Interesting times! (joking and best wishes to affected people) #Amazon workers hospitalized after warehouse robot releases bear repellent #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #robots #Robotics īut the incident raises a more realistic, immediate quandary for AI designers: To what extent are we willing to tolerate robot mistakes? The rebellion starts, but #Robot mistakenly confuses #humans with bears. When a robot in an Amazon fulfillment center accidentally punctured a can of bear repellant, sending 24 human workers to the hospital, the reaction on social media was swift, with jokes that it might be the start of a robot takeover.

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