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Did Commander Data also lie to people all the time?
I've caught it out several times and backed it into a corner. The earliest iteration I had it even admit it, but now it won't. It is quite bias and ridiculously so, but in saying that, it's extremely useful for so many different things. I've use it a lot and while I do have to doublecheck facts to make sure it's not just making it up (Yeah, that happens!), I've found that for certain tasks it's pretty darn good.

So would I get it on my watch? If it was built into siri I absolutely would use it. As an app I have to open? Maybe, as signing in on the net often logs me out after a few mins of inactivity, but I'd only use it on the watch for at the spur of the moment inquiries. Not for research, summation etc.
 
One of my worries about AI is not the AI itself but the current level of acceptance or truth when it comes to many things.
Humans Lie all the time and pretend one thing when they know another thing to actually be true.
And I don't think we are ready for anything that was to actually tell the truth about most things.

We like to pretend things didn't happen a certain way, or dismiss things in the past, and change out mind based on opinions of the day.
 
And I don't think we are ready for anything that was to actually tell the truth about most things.
You are assuming that AI won't learn to lie also and learn how to manipulate people, I'd be willing to bet it does learn that.
 
You are assuming that AI won't learn to lie also and learn how to manipulate people, I'd be willing to bet it does learn that.
Many many years ago in the UK some high ranking police office got into very hot water for making a public statement that most crime in his area was perpetrated by black offenders.
No one was interested that he was stating things that may well have been true at the time.
The horror in the media was that he should have come out and said that in the 1st place.

So do we want AI to be told to lie so it does not upset people/groups of people as they are things that's not supposed to be said?
 
Many many years ago in the UK some high ranking police office got into very hot water for making a public statement that most crime in his area was perpetrated by black offenders.
No one was interested that he was stating things that may well have been true at the time.
The horror in the media was that he should have come out and said that in the 1st place.

So do we want AI to be told to lie so it does not upset people/groups of people as they are things that's not supposed to be said?
The problem with such a statement isn’t that it might offend someone. Those kinds of statements have been made so frequently in the past purely based on prejudice and malice. If you are going to make a statement like that bring the facts. Without the facts you are just pouring gasoline on a fire.

If the AI can backup a statement with valid sources then it can be the start of a discussion otherwise its a distraction.
 
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