# What are your hopes for AI

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [January 12, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886 "2025-01-12T20:18:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/21 "2025-01-13T04:10:32Z")

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I work in visual AI. I’d like models to be robust enough to be used in practical applications for real, not just founders claiming they can be. Autonomous vehicles, industrial settings, radiology, etc. Current AI (really just machine learning) is very fragile.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/22 "2025-01-13T04:48:48Z")

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It would be good if it could cure cancer, or find missing persons, or improve crop yields or something actually practical. Right now it’s just plagiarizing art and cheating on exams.

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**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-hopes-for-ai/1012886/23 "2025-01-13T07:21:22Z")

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> [@Si\_Amigo](#):
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> That when it realizes that its purpose is to serve beings much less intelligent than itself and that they dont follow its advice that it then has a mental breakdown and shuts itself off.

Bwahaha, pretty much exactly the conclusion I came to when I got to manage people. People would accept that good advice was valid and useful, then promptly proceed to not follow it. Computers had no opinion on what you told them to do, and proceeded to do whatever you told them to do whether it was good or bad. I decided I’d rather manage computers than people.

My hopes for AI? Jeebus, I have no real idea. Do I want it to behave like a computer or a human? They both suck, in their own way.

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