Tag: Brendan Dixon

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News
Date
March 6, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Programming

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Brendan Dixon, David Rotman, Gary Smith, Jeffrey Funk, Moore's Law, Productivity, Ray Kurzweil}

Is Moore’s Law Over?

_{Rapid increase in computing power may become a thing of the past} _{News
March 6, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Programming}

If Moore’s Law fails, AI may settle in as a part of our lives like the automobile but it will not really be the Ruler of All except for those who choose that lifestyle. Even so, a belief that we will, for example, merge with computers by 2045 (the Singularity) is perhaps immune to the march of mere events. Entire arts and entertainment industries depend on the expression of such beliefs.

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News
Date
September 28, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Ethics, Technocracy

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___longform, Brendan Dixon, Chris Stokes, Eric Holloway, Featured, Isaac Asimov, Jonathan Bartlett, Robots, Three Laws of Robotics, Zeroth Law}

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} _{News
September 28, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Ethics, Technocracy}

Prolific science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) developed the Three Laws of Robotics, in the hope of guarding against potentially dangerous artificial intelligence. Jonathan Bartlett, Brendan Dixon, and Eric Holloway discuss what went wrong. Read More ›

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News
Date
July 15, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

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Bernie Widrow, Brendan Dixon, Eric Holloway, Featured, poker, self-driving cars}

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} _{News
July 15, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

“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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News
Date
July 10, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion

Tagged
Brendan Dixon, Computer sims, Featured, Fine-tuning, Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks, Universe}

How Do We Know Our Universe Is Not a Sim World?

_{It’s an interesting idea, say Bradley fellows, but for a number of reasons, it is not credible} _{News
July 10, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Religion}

The computer sim universe seems to be a way of dealing with the massive evidence of the fine-tuning of our universe without invoking traditional philosophy or religion.

Processor of the future. Concept of global cyberspace. Innovations in computer nanotechnology. 3D illustration of an abstract microchip

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News
Date
May 13, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Technocracy

Tagged
Brendan Dixon, Eric Holloway, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Longform, Viktoriya Krakovna}

Are we risking a planetary AI intelligence explosion?

_{Or are our problems with AI the usual boring stuff we prefer to avoid?} _{News
May 13, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Technocracy}

Mind Matters News asked some of our house computer science experts for comment.

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Eric Holloway
Date
January 4, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
AI Winter, Backpropagation, Brendan Dixon, constrained vision, Data processing, Data processing inequality, Featured, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, The Singularity, the unconstrained vision}

Will artificial intelligence design artificial super-intelligence?

_{And then turn us all into super-geniuses, as some AI researchers hope? No, and here's why not} _{Eric Holloway
January 4, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Because Moore's law is an exponential law, the numbers multiply rapidly and we could hit the physical limit rather suddenly. Current indications are that Moore’s law’s speed has already slowed or even ceased to be a true description of the IT industry today. Read More ›