Not going to summarize the article content, but I think this is the highest-level publication linking to LW so far.
Also, it's appears that Shane Legg, Jaan Tallin and others at Deep Mind leveraged the acquisition and moved the friendly AI conversation to a higher level, quite possibly highest level at Google. Interesting times, these are.
Q6. How much influence will the ethics committee actually have? For example, are there commercial and IP clawback provisions if the committee is deemed to be ignored or sidelined?
With Google's army of lawyers I wouldn't count on this as the enforcement mechanism. BUT, this has a chance to get Larry or Sergei involved, which has a chance of succeeding and making a huge difference.
From what I gather, it is chiefly Sergey Brin who is concerned with ethical issues, and his attention is on various Google X projects. Larry Page and Eric Schmidt don't seem to care as much, if at all. That's probably one reason Google has been getting visibly eviller in the last couple of years. Unless Deep Mind is a part of Google X, I would not expect the ethics board to matter.
Eh? Given that he started this thread with the idea of discussing the link to LW and not so much the content of the article, it doesn't seem like much of an issue (especially when the acquisition has been discussed on LW already).
I would be more inclined to downvote because I think that this is more suited for the Open Thread but I think the same for a lot of posts.
I am usually fairly consistent in this and downvote most such posts when I see them, however, I didn't downvote this post because it is almost borderline. You are right though, I should've downvoted this post to be consistent with my other downvotes, so I shall.
Huffpost is a pretty shallow publication, and this article is no exception: the author assumes that one can get away with Asimov-style deontological rules:
who would we trust to develop a "10 commandments" for ethical AI?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/google-ai_n_4683343.html
Not going to summarize the article content, but I think this is the highest-level publication linking to LW so far.
Also, it's appears that Shane Legg, Jaan Tallin and others at Deep Mind leveraged the acquisition and moved the friendly AI conversation to a higher level, quite possibly highest level at Google. Interesting times, these are.