Computers can now things that you would not have believed them a few years ago. Hallucinating, for example. Play chess in three days to learn. Poker. Or lie
This is what the VW scandal even in the core:. Someone in the group had the idea to teach cars lying. If the car is traveling on the road, it blows pollutants into the air, as if there were no tomorrow. If it is then put to the test, is therefore tested for its exhaust emissions, it noted the sudden and behaves as it is expected of him: It disguises himself, literally. It spits temporarily less dirt in the air as long as it feels observed. As a teenager who quickly throws away the cigarette when the parents come around the corner.
Without emotion, without awareness
cars stuck today, just as many other technical achievements also, full of autonomous systems. You do things because of the data that is available to them, they make decisions, though – for the initiated – quite predictable.
If the manipulated VW cars found that the steering wheel was far from being moved, certain speeds for certain periods have been complied with and so on, called no one “Aha, be careful!”, nobody was hectic. If software makes decisions, then that’s an equally emotional and of unconscious process like any other digital also. A lie is from the behavior only by the observer, because that is deceived.
Of course, still does not meet the precise psychological definition of the concept lie. In humans sets lies ahead so that his iniquity one is aware and therefore expects that in the consciousness of the other person through the lie created a false picture. Children can only really be lying if they have a so-called theory of mind developed if they can imagine that even the head of the other something is going on. Something you can possibly influence. That works only at about three or four years. It could also be formulated as follows: True artificial intelligence that is also equipped with consciousness, the computers have only when they can lie as good as preschoolers.
So far, however deceptive software without understanding the observer, but also with a clear conscience. Those who have made sure that it does, are the true deceivers, just let them provide the technology lie in itself. When that happens, the actual wrongdoers are usually long away. Who can deal with software that makes them more powerful, which applies in particular for liars.
lied Software Software
VW is certainly spectacular, but not the first case in which someone can cheat software for themselves. In early September, for example, in the United States against the British Navinder S. indicted. He is accused of being responsible for the so-called flash crash on Wall Street on May 6 of 2010. S. had used software to trade on the exchange. If the charges against him are correct, then log also this software.
He had placed orders for certain bill index derivatives, the FBI and the competent US regulatory. US stocks in the Dow Jones Index lost, allegedly as a result of S.’s activities, in the meantime one trillion US dollars in value, the index itself fell temporarily to 1000 points. It was the fastest and most violent exchange loss in its history.
Especially in the areas where people like S. are traveling, or about the lightning-fast trading on the stock exchanges of the world, the power is now in any case long instrumental in the computers. A Flash Crash can only exist because in response to certain events do autonomous trading algorithms in a split second certain things, for example, as soon as possible to sell shares. And they do may seem even if you these events have been fooled by another program. Software is lying Software
Computer Assisted Lies
In fact, true This summary also on the VW scandal, because of course, the apparently manipulated exhaust measurements are ultimately performed at least semi-autonomous systems, software therefore.
This type of lies and deceit by using new, powerful tools for deception, trickery, manipulation and obfuscating we will encounter more and more often in the coming years. In the course of what is now called Industry 4.0 or Internet of Things, autonomous systems are becoming increasingly further into our daily lives. If everything is equipped with sensors and networked, then you can also systems automatically react to environmental conditions.
You can often even better than the man, otherwise there would be no driver assistance systems, no ABS, no lane departure warning. Of course you can also teach these autonomous systems, particularly like to behave when the inspectors stop by. In the black boxes of the autonomous systems namely, the look inside only in the rarest cases.
In the world of the future software will operate autonomously in such places other than the car, whether in factories, logistics, or, more troubling: the military.
In the future, is therefore certainly no less lied and cheated as today -. but probably much more efficient
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