{"id":93815,"date":"2016-06-13T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93815"},"modified":"2016-06-13T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:26:23","slug":"google-develops-kill-switch-to-help-stop-an-ai-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93815-google-develops-kill-switch-to-help-stop-an-ai-uprising","title":{"rendered":"Google develops kill switch to help stop an AI uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is currently working on a &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for the the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/03\/google-ai-killswitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">terrifying <\/a><\/strong>possibility that the world&#8217;s robots and algorithms stop listening to us.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Deep Mind team recently published a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/intelligence.org\/files\/Interruptibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a><\/strong>, detailing its work and how it would stop &#8220;a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skynet_%28Terminator%29\" target=\"_blank\">Skynet <\/a><\/strong>scenario&#8221; from happening.<\/p>\n<p>The framework revolves around an AI from learning how to prevent &#8211; or induce &#8211; human interruption of whatever it&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safe interruptibility can be useful to take control of a robot that is misbehaving and may lead to irreversible consequences, or to take it out of a delicate situation, or even to temporarily use it to achieve a task it did not learn to perform or would not necessarily receive rewards for this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Fan remake of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 coming to Steam for free\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93793-fan-remake-of-star-wars-battlefront-3-coming-to-steam-for-free.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fan remake of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 coming to Steam for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how game prices hit R1,000 in South Africa: 1998\u20132016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/93759-this-is-how-game-prices-hit-r1000-in-south-africa-1998-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how game prices hit R1,000 in South Africa: 1998\u20132016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why we should scrap \u2018dumb passwords\u2019 in favour of smarter security\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93693-why-we-should-scrap-dumb-passwords-in-favour-of-smarter-security.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why we should scrap \u2018dumb passwords\u2019 in favour of smarter security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is currently working on a &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for the the terrifying possibility that the world&#8217;s robots and algorithms stop listening to us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8585],"tags":[31,1638,19117,19119,10025],"class_list":["post-93815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-google","tag-kill-switch","tag-skynet","tag-terminator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93905,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93815\/revisions\/93905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}