That's why I think "A.I. ethics" is pretty much a non-problem. It's not about finding the one and only "right ethics", A.I. ethics is mostly about providing a set of constraints that act similar to systems of laws. These will be provided by legislation and/or by voluntary industry guidelines. Such sets of rules (with possible conflicts, soft and hard constraints, probabilistic or non-probabilistic, etc.) have been studied extensively as "normative systems", "input/output logics", and in decision making.

There are many interesting details and problems in this research area and there are plenty of conferences about it every year, but these problems are ultimately solvable. In any case, the content of those normative systems comes from humans (and human authorities/institutions), just like there are also laws, traffic regulations, and social norms in every country. Just like laws and regulations are not perfect and do not represent a morality carved in stone, A.I. systems will have revisable human-made contents that represent a more (or less) reasonable&lawful consensus.

People certainly can behave ethically.

Imagine that a so called democratic country like the UK would go down the same road as bad and evil China ...

> Women who tell stories about him paint a picture of lonely socially incompetent man who makes super creepy attempts to connect opposite sex.

Really?

"When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him."

https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

I just wish they'd hurry up and make the android app useable. I signed up for the beta and was pretty disappointed as my uploads were cancelled if my screen locked or, horribly enough, rotated ...

I never understood coders who don't separate UI threads and network calls - which is exactly what it sounds like is happening, here.

Android is Linux, you can always just install it the normal way and use it from a terminal. Maybe that's what you mean by unusable (a terminal isn't very user-friendly, but it solves the file transfer / app availability problem).

If I remember correctly, you can configure (I don't know what the default is) to power save or even turn off WiFi on Android when you turn off the screen. Are you sure that's not interfering with this beta app?

Willing to bet their devs came from iOS. That would explain the android-specific quirks.

I can attach a keyboard to my toaster as well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a computer.

"A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

With this definition a cable can be computer; or a lightbulb.

You can definitely send instructions to a lot of modern devices that would have not integrated such a powerful chipset decade ago: not only the toaster you are referring to, but a fridge, a wash machine, a tv, a light bulb, a door bell. The list goes on and on, as long as a new product is brought to market that integrate a processor and brand itself as "smart" there is a good change a computer has been blended in what otherwise would be a dumb device with a single purpose.

Does the law apply to the old human computers back in the day too.

Call me ignorant, but who are still using VGA?

A lot of projectors in conference rooms and class rooms.