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Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle since the middle of the 20th century.
I study artificial general intelligence, and I believe the ongoing fearmongering is at least partially attributable to large AI developers’ financial interests.
Some some said AI would not just reach human-level intelligence, but would probably surpass it.
Artificial general intelligence has suddenly become a pressing topic – but there’s more than one way to look at this issue.
Experts largely agree that AI with human-level capabilities is not that far off. How will this change out relationship with machines?
To build a true artificial mind, first map out how thinking works. Enter the Common Model of Cognition.
Imagine an advanced artificial intelligence took over from Santa. What could go wrong?
There are plenty of guidelines, policy documents and reports on how best we should use AI and avoid unethical practices. So how about we agree on one set of rules?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the way we live, work, communicate and travel. So long as it’s designed that way.
We’re on the way to making machines that appear and act human, and can think for themselves. So how will they react to our behaviour towards them, especially the bad behaviour?
We’re on the road to developing artificial intelligence systems that will be able to do tasks beyond those they were designed for. But will we be able to control them?
The future and the past, money, technology and politics documented and imagined in fact and fiction, in an economist’s recommended reading.
Even the smartest AIs weren’t supposed to beat top humans at Go for another decade or more.
In the late 1700s, French scientist Antoine Lavoisier proved that the mechanism behind burning is oxidation. Lavoisier’s discovery killed off an eternity of dogma involving a non-existent substance called…
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