Someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race

132 点作者 chasontherobot大约 7 年前

27 条评论

partycoder大约 7 年前

AI is a vague term. A Pong bot is AI. A Roomba vacuum cleaner crashing into walls runs on AI. Possibly your fuzzy logic powered washing machine could also be considered to run on AI.Sophia, the "robot with a citizenship" from Saudi Arabia is a glorified chatbot combined with Furby grade technology for facial expressions, but received worldwide press coverage.This must be some similar thing to take advantage of the technologically unsavvy and click-happy Internet people.The only reality here is that the people covering this fake robot mayor from Japan will make tens of thousands of dollars from ad revenue.

评论 #16828127 未加载

snarfy大约 7 年前

I'm all for replacing our elected officials with small shell scripts. We're automating everything else, why not government?I could fill out a questionnaire answering hundreds of questions to use as a reference on how I might vote. That data could then be used for voting on subsequent laws.Why have a representative government when the human doesn't actually represent you. A small algorithm would be a much better representation of you.

评论 #16829254 未加载

评论 #16832692 未加载

评论 #16830126 未加载

评论 #16829129 未加载

评论 #16829851 未加载

评论 #16829035 未加载

John_KZ大约 7 年前

>If you assumed that artificial intelligence itself couldn't run for mayor, you're absolutely not wrong; that just happens to be where things get truly interesting. The two-person team pushing Michihito Matsuda consists of both Tetsuzo Matsumoto, the vice president of mobile provider Softbank ($74 billion revenue), and former Google Japan representative Norio Murakami.So what they claim is artificial intelligence and automation is actually the long arm of 2 huge conglomerates. Seems like a persisting trend.

评论 #16828453 未加载

Chaebixi大约 7 年前

I'm kinda getting tired of how the word "AI" is getting thrown around so much nowadays. It's used to refer to chatbots or analysis programs in a way that evokes an intelligent strong-AI.I'm looking forward to the next winter.

评论 #16832620 未加载

waldotime大约 7 年前

This is just marketing for black mirror season 5, right?

thedirt0115大约 7 年前

The article didn't seem to answer the one question I really had -- is this legal???"If you assumed that artificial intelligence itself couldn't run for mayor, you're absolutely not wrong; that just happens to be where things get truly interesting."And then the author doesn't actually answer whether the AI can or can't run for mayor. I'm wondering if they're taking advantage of some weird loophole in the law that doesn't require the mayor to be a citizen/human there.

ed_blackburn大约 7 年前

Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence - reporting for duty!

评论 #16829037 未加载

cgriswald大约 7 年前

> You see, if the current nominee Michihito Matsuda happens to earn the most votes during this election, that would make them the world's first AI (Artificial Intelligence) mayor, ushering in a new wave of possibilities for the district.I understand that 'it' is an inappropriate pronoun when describing people of unidentified gender (although I still find singular 'they' abhorrent) , but an AI is very clearly an 'it'...

评论 #16832732 未加载

评论 #16831334 未加载

SenHeng大约 7 年前

<a href="http://ai-mayor.com" rel="nofollow">http://ai-mayor.com</a>Website of the AI's (owner's) campaign site.

scrumper大约 7 年前

The three claims seem massively overstated and way beyond my understanding of the state of the art. How can AI “break down the positives and negatives” of a petition and predict its future effect if implemented or rejected?I’m I guess willing (ableit horrified) to be shown to be wrong, but this looks ridiculous as presented here.

chimmy_chonga大约 7 年前

There's a very popular young adult novel out called Scythe written by Neal Shusterman. In this novel there is a benevolent cloud-based AI in charge of ruling over the whole world named The Thunderhead ( because The Cloud wasn't impressive enough).It's cool to see part of this fictional world coming to life

评论 #16831486 未加载

anoplus大约 7 年前

Is this AI open source? If not, I think it is outrageous that any AI serving in a public role is not open source.

评论 #16829181 未加载

beager大约 7 年前

I believe AI/ML can reduce government costs and boost efficiency by automating staff duties. But if I leave actual governing to a machine, I am left with an entirely new, but not necessarily smaller attack surface for corruption.Traditionally: monied interest buys influence, maybe in the form of a steak dinner for the mayor.AI Gov’t Future: monied interest buys asymmetric understanding of GovBot5000, perhaps by hiring an AI researcher or data firm to figure out how to exploit flaws in the algorithm.If we tackles issues of inefficiency, opacity, and corruption in government first, then I think we can tackle judgment and representation, which are less “on fire” things imo.

3chelon大约 7 年前

I've been expecting this ever since I read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is Harsh Mistress" as a kid.In this age of elections being influenced by social media botnets, it's simply too close to the truth.

评论 #16829504 未加载

gfo大约 7 年前

Comments about the substance of the article aside, there's always going to be some risk of bias in AI which is why I'd argue one should never vote for an AI like this, especially if it takes the normal route of a politician and states that it's working for you.Also, at what point does it decide to wage war or enlist a militia when the trolls dupe it into thinking it's what the majority want? Surely war has to be allowed at least somewhere in the algorithm - especially if you were implementing this at a nation level.

xab9大约 7 年前

I think medical science hasn't yet realised that being a politician is a treatable illness.You know, like how society tolerates smokers - it's an addiction, it's just actively encouraged and very profitable despite the actual loss of citizens.First we can replace the politicians with sophisticated emulators (in the vein of bash scripts) then we can come up with even better algorithms, ones that would stop stealing or facilitating corruption. We could call that version two or something.

X6S1x6Okd1st大约 7 年前

This article is really lacking in substance

c_shu大约 7 年前

Could it be a chance of political corruption even if all source code and data are open?

coldacid大约 7 年前

And here I thought that Beatless was just anime, not real life in the making.

mtgx大约 7 年前

Is the AI running for mayor, or the people controlling the AI are?

bsder大约 7 年前

If they entered Hatsune Miku (a Vocaloid), she would probably win ...

alexandercrohde大约 7 年前

This is so unreasonably worded that I'm flagging it.

dkobran大约 7 年前

Next year the AI will enter the mayoral race itself :)

shackenberg大约 7 年前

Are we sure that is not satire?

评论 #16829352 未加载

评论 #16829429 未加载

rootsudo大约 7 年前

愛AI!

forrrealman大约 7 年前

Stop with the clickbait: an "AI" is not running for mayor. At best, if we want to stick with the term "AI" we may say "someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race". This kind of misleading hype is how previous AI winters happened... (and I haven't even addressed the capabilities of this "AI").

评论 #16831309 未加载

评论 #16831828 未加载

lovetrump大约 7 年前

I like AI mayors, as long as I control the code...