{"id":13960,"date":"2017-11-04T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/google-deepmind-is-making-artificial-intelligence-a-slave-to-the-algorithm-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:34:15","slug":"google-deepmind-is-making-artificial-intelligence-a-slave-to-the-algorithm-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/google-deepmind-is-making-artificial-intelligence-a-slave-to-the-algorithm-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind is making artificial intelligence a slave to the algorithm | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s role in university artificial intelligence courses alarms <strong>Sheila Hayman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/nov\/02\/big-tech-firms-google-ai-hiring-frenzy-brain-drain-uk-universities\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hi-tech brain drain threatens British university research<\/a>, 2 November) contains one particularly chilling revelation: that Google DeepMind now runs artificial intelligence courses at UCL and Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Having met the DeepMind people in my role with the MIT Media Lab, I know that their definition of \u201cintelligence\u201d is so impoverished that it doesn\u2019t extend beyond the abstract calculations that an algorithm can achieve, and completely fails to understand that human intelligence is embodied and distributed throughout our physical selves \u2013 and indeed between them, in the mirror neurons that fire in sympathy when we watch a dancer or help an injured friend. In short, it\u2019s not just depressing, it\u2019s bad science.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/nov\/03\/google-deepmind-is-making-artificial-intelligence-a-slave-to-the-algorithm\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/theguardianlogo-20.gif\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s role in university artificial intelligence courses ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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