Re: [FT] Unpredictable AI

Derk Groeneveld schrieb:
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> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
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> > There have been various incidents were HUMAN pilots / 
> > weapons operators have brought down nice fat airliners. 
> > With the right type of IFF and patern recognition software, 
> > I don't think the risk from an AI would be any higher. 
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> IFF can be fooled. IFF can break down. Pattern 
> recognition is very nice, except these incidents have a nasty habit 
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> happening beyond visual range.

Use a telescope or light enhancement ! And those circumstances are 
precisely those where humans have problems too.  

> But yes, humans make mistake,s too. But they, unlike 
> machines, can be court-martialed as an example for other 
> humans not to do it again ;) 

And machines can be re-programmed/modified to avoid causes of errors. 
In extremis, you could scrap the whole series. The Romans might 
decimate a military unit for misdeeds, but not execute everybody. 

Greetings