Another Life: All Fun, Games Till an AI Falls in Love
Then it descends into a convoluted drift of uncertain storytellingAnd the victim is not primarily the viewer, who has other options. The victim is the art itself.
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The Brain: Junkyard, Watch, or Antenna?
A warped genius reviews the options, as he seeks ultimate power - a taleAfter many dead ends, Flim realized that all forms of human power are ultimately controlled by the human mind. Thus, if he could harness the power of the mind, he would finally be able to create anything his heart could desire.
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Has AI Been Racist?
AI is, left to itself, inherently unthinking, which can result in insensitivity and biasJust any available data swatched into systems may embody prejudices that only become evident in use.
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3G? 4G? 5G? What Gs Are These?
An expert COSM panel will fill us in on what the latest Generation of the internet (5G) and block chain offer usThe panelists include Jules Urbach, creator of the web’s first 3D video game platform, described by George Gilder as “the most inventive software engineer he has ever met.”
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The Three Laws of Robotics Have Failed the Robots
Almost no one out there thinks that Isaac Asimov's Three Laws could work for truly intelligent AI
Ghost in the Nuke
Weapons have no souls, thus greater power ensures our safety…? —a taleArctang's grip tightened on the throttle. This was it. No going back. The Fortress loomed, gigantic towers gazing down on him, laser dots peppering his window.
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Always Wear Your Safety Glasses: A Tale for Our Times
What if we came to know the world only through our high tech aids? Russ White imagines…
Will we become mere apps of our smart machines?
At COSM, Ray Kurzweil will offer a glimpse of his foreseen Singularity where we merge with superintelligent computersHe believes that the merger will eventually make the whole universe intelligent. Kurzweil’s critics believe that the superintelligent computers he needs can’t exist. If the critics are correct, we have misread the AI revolution.
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The Top Ten AI Hype Stories of 2018, Updated
You can segue to each in the podcast and read the accompanying Mind Matters News story, as well as key updates
Nigerian Teens Create Sci-Fi With Cracked Smartphone
They love sci-fi and, well, if you are going to start, you have to start somewhereThe teens' project, Critics Company, has alerted people to the possibilities of digital media like YouTube to tutor themselves in skills that can fetch money or jobs or even help them start their own businesses.
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Fan Tries Programming AI Jazz, Gets Lots and Lots of AI…
Jazz is spontaneous, but spontaneous noise is not jazzAs Gioia says, jazz depends on the “personality of the individual musician.” And the blindspot of AI creativity is: There’s no one home.
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New AI Can Create—and Detect—Fake News
But how good is it at either task? We tested some copyWill the predicted tsunami of fake news and advertising make much difference? Possibly, but in ways that might surprise you.
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We See the Pattern! — But Is It Real?
It’s natural to imagine that a deep significance underlies coincidencesUnfortunately, patterns are not always a source of information. Often, they are a meaningless coincidence like the 7-11 babies this summer.
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Can We Write Creative Computer Programs?
As Robert J. Marks tells World Radio, people have tried making computers creative but no luck
We went back to visit Gödel, Escher, and Bach…
Forty years after publication, how has a big explain-the-mind book withstood the test of time?Is there evidence that human minds function like computers and can soon be reproduced in software, as Hofstadter believed?
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Can the AI Poker Champ Improve Real-World Decisions?
That’s the claim aired at Nature for Pluribus, the new Texas hold ‘em champ. Bradley Center fellows are skeptical“The trouble is," says Brendan Dixon, "any technique that works by searching ‘to the end of the game’ will not help self-driving cars (as an example) one bit…unless they have also mastered predicting the future. There is no ‘end of the game’ for nearly all decisions we make.”
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Fake News Thrives on Fears of a Robot Takeover
The motion graphics artist tried to explain that he faked the amazing robot videoThe convincing film was great for Tom’s Twitter feed but less great for what it says about our judgment as viewers. We believe too much AI hype.
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AI Can’t Do Jazz Because Spontaneity Is at Jazz’s Core
AI “artists”—in all the forms presently available — merely replay their programmingAs Ted Gioia makes clear in his discussion of jazz, swirling a bit of randomness into the mix will not help.
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1984 is 70 years old yet still feels current
Did Orwell prove a better techno-prophet than Huxley did in Brave New World?In 1949, Huxley thought he was closer to the mark than his former student Orwell was. Later generations have tussled over the question, with revealing results.
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“Brilliant Vision” from a Century Ago Foretells Today’s Internet
In E. M. Forster's dystopia, people interact only through the MachineIn a wholly materialist environment, science and other disciplines have, by preference, ceased to explore anything but their own ideas.
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