In an interesting way the robot and AI itself is an art work of the human creators. One can see how it's a reflection of their values and the current times, etc.
I love this point of view.
Programmers can't explain why AI makes the choices it does. Because of that, it can't be a reflection of their views, since they don't know what it will do.
Yeah, I was thinking more about this. In understanding people you get at the core drives that are behind everything they do. With an AI, it doesn't work like that, but there is something driving it. I imagine that playing around with one you could come to understand the things that "motivate" it and it "strives" for. I doubt it would be very interesting. People have great depth, partly due to the hardships they've encountered, and the compensations they've employed.
I think you're missing my point. The motivations of the machine are simple and defined explicitly. Ex. get people to stay on Facebook the longest, choose the links to show in search results that people will most likely click, get people to rate the AI generated picture as high as possible.
The AI isn't conveying its perspective like an artist would, relating some eternal truth, but rather conveying some thing, and that thing gets people emotionally engaged, frustrated, vindicated, happy, sad, whatever. As long as it keeps people interested, the AI willing to do more of that. It's not that the AI is sophisticated as the human brain, it's just an highly immoral and out of the box thinker that can dispassionately find ways to keep us watching, and IMO as a side effect, bring out the worst in us.
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