CategoryArtificial Intelligence
Does information theory support design in nature?
William Dembski makes a convincing case, using accepted information theory principles relevant to computer scienceDeep Learning won’t solve AI
AlphaGo pioneer: We need “another dozen or half-a-dozen breakthroughs”Inner peace: Is there software for that?
Tech billionaire funds neuroscience in a search for the secret of contentmentMachines really can learn!
A computer scientist responds to my parableJeffrey Shallit argues that a computer is not just a machine, but something quite special.
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Meaningful information vs artificial intelligenceCan machines be persons?
What would the real effect of legal personhood for machines be?What is Learning Anyway?
Machine learning specialist George Montañez reflects on the question in a video excerpt from the CNAI gala“Artificial” Artificial Intelligence
What happens when AI needs a human I?Artificial intelligence often fails at crucial points. It must then be supplemented by human intelligence. Many software systems that look to their users like pure advanced artificial intelligence hide a lot of human effort behind a technological mask.
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But not in quite the way historian Yuval Noah Harari thinksCould AI Understand the Universe?
World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousnessCould HAL 9000 Ever Be Built?
I say yes. Some reflections on the 50th Year Anniversary of 2001: A Space OdysseyAt one point on the trip from Earth to Jupiter, HAL becomes suspicious that the crew might be sabotaging the mission. HAL then purposely tries to kill all the crew. The most logical explanation for this act is a coding error. HAL was programmed to operate on the basis that the mission took priority over human life.
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Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobsCan a Game Prove That Computers Could Really Think?
Philosopher Daniel Dennett thinks so. Let's apply Occam's Razor and seeSometimes the ‘Bots Turn Out To Be Humans
That “lifelike” effect was easier to come by than some might thinkScreenwriters’ Jobs Are Not Threatened by AI
Unless the public starts preferring mishmash to creativityAn AI-generated film is not an altogether new idea. Rule-based expert systems were used to write short plays over a half century ago, in the early 1960's. Then, as now, don’t expect creativity. That is not what AI does.
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The king’s perpetual innovation machine was all ready to roll but then a skeptic butted inGeorge Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.
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