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Mind Matters
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November 26, 2018
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AI Social Media Could Totally Manipulate You

Deep learning specialist: And the scary thing is, the AI needed is not especially advanced
Mind Matters
November 26, 2018
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Readers familiar with The Two Towers will recall that that’s precisely what Worm-Tongue did to Theoden King: The king heard nothing but what was conveyed to him from his would-be overlord by Worm-tongue, until someone separated him, rather forcibly, from his "social medium."

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Mind Matters
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November 14, 2018
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If a Robot Read the News, Would You Notice a Difference?

The Chinese government thinks not. Is this the way of the future?
Mind Matters
November 14, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors
The robotic news readers of China serve a quite different purpose from the independent news outlets and commentators of the West; the robots help disseminate controlled information rather than finding and developing information. Read More ›
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Brendan Dixon
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November 12, 2018
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The “superintelligent AI myth”

The problem that even the skeptical Deep Learning researcher left out
Brendan Dixon
November 12, 2018
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I largely agree with what François Chollet said last year as to why there will be no explosion of general artificial intelligence. But when he challenged the fear of an AI-driven “intelligence explosion,” he, perhaps unwittingly, said more than he meant. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 10, 2018
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Brains are not billions of little computers

Despite the hype. Also, life forms are not machines and neurons are not neural networks
Mind Matters
November 10, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind
Life forms exist in a dance with their environment (homeostasis) that requires constant adjustment, an adjustment generated by the inner drive to continue in existence. How does the drive come to be there? The analogy between life forms and machines like computers is not particularly convincing, on close examination. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 8, 2018
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Software pioneer says general superhuman artificial intelligence is very unlikely

The concept, he argues, shows a lack of understanding of the nature of intelligence
Mind Matters
November 8, 2018
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François Chollet, author of Keras, for the Python deep learning language, cites the No Free Lunch theorem as one of the reasons. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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November 7, 2018
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Machines just don’t do meaning

And that, says a computer science prof, is a key reason they won't compete with humans
Mind Matters
November 7, 2018
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Human understanding is grounded, as Prof. Mitchell says, in common-sense knowledge about how the world works and why things matter. Researchers have not been able to transfer this understanding to AI but she worries that many teams are moving ahead with projects that require such ability for safety. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 1, 2018
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Should robots run for office?

A tech analyst sees a threat to democracy if they don’t
Denyse O'Leary
November 1, 2018
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In an adapted excerpt from Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech (2018), titled “Mr. Robot goes to Washington: How AI will change democracy,” lawyer and tech writer Jamie Susskind: envisions AI as not only fighting “fake news” but voting for us and helping to draft legislation. It’s a sobering thought, how far some tech analysts would be prepared to go in order to impose their own vision of order on an unruly but stable political system. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2018
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How AI could run the world

Its killer apps, in physicist Max Tegmark's tale, include a tsunami of "message" films
Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2018
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In traditional fairy tales, an explanatory gap can be addressed by magic. After all, most readers will grant a writer one impossibility (for example, that a boy’s horse has human intelligence) just to get the story moving. Unfortunately, science fiction is one genre that doesn’t work that way. The author must make the claim sound like science, a problem Tegmark vaults right over. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 23, 2018
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Could AI write novels?

George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involved
Denyse O'Leary
October 23, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Social Factors
Serious literature will always be written, to borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, in “blood, toil, tears and sweat” because imaging the human condition accurately is part of its nature. And if the writer lives in an unfree society, serious literature will also be written in fear. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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October 16, 2018
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Does information theory support design in nature?

William Dembski makes a convincing case, using accepted information theory principles relevant to computer science
Eric Holloway
October 16, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
Intelligent design theory is sometimes said to lack any practical application. One straightforward application is that, because intelligence can create information and computation cannot, human interaction will improve computational performance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 2, 2018
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Deep Learning won’t solve AI

AlphaGo pioneer: We need “another dozen or half-a-dozen breakthroughs”
Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Hassabis: "AlphaGo doesn't understand language but we would like them to build up to this symbolic level of reasoning — maths, language, and logic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2018
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Inner peace: Is there software for that?

Tech billionaire funds neuroscience in a search for the secret of contentment
Denyse O'Leary
September 25, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Neuroscience, Social Factors
His approach to neuroscience is very different from that of the Dalai Lama, who facilitates neuroscience research to better understand contemplation as a path to inner peace. Chen’s focus is more on developing virtual reality. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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September 19, 2018
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Artificial intelligence is impossible

Meaningful information vs artificial intelligence
Eric Holloway
September 19, 2018
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Because the law of independence conservation states that no combination of randomness and determinism can create mutual information, then likewise no Turing machine nor artificial intelligence can create mutual information. Thus, the goal of artificial intelligence researchers to reproduce human intelligence with a computer program is impossible to achieve. Read More ›
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George Montañez and Mind Matters
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September 7, 2018
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What is Learning Anyway?

Machine learning specialist George Montañez reflects on the question in a video excerpt from the CNAI gala
George Montañez and Mind Matters
September 7, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Events, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence
Can we make approximations that are so close to ourselves that the fact that they are approximations no longer matters? Read More ›
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Jonathan Bartlett
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September 6, 2018
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“Artificial” Artificial Intelligence

What happens when AI needs a human I?
Jonathan Bartlett
September 6, 2018
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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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Michael Egnor
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September 5, 2018
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AI is indeed a threat to democracy

But not in quite the way historian Yuval Noah Harari thinks
Michael Egnor
September 5, 2018
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Rapid, wide dissemination of ideas we don’t understand is the prime threat AI poses to humanity. It is an existential threat to human dignity and flourishing. And this threat is made graver, not less grave, by our democracy, which, as Plato understood, is the necessary soil of tyranny. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 31, 2018
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Could AI Understand the Universe?

World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousness
Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2018
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Atkins is arguing that the fact that we do not understand what consciousness is, far from being a barrier to creating artificial consciousness, offers the hope that, once we do create them, artificially conscious entities will understand consciousness but we won’t. The proposition sounds a bit confused, no? Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks
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August 30, 2018
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Could HAL 9000 Ever Be Built?

I say yes. Some reflections on the 50th Year Anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Robert J. Marks
August 30, 2018
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At 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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