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Posts tagged "artificial intelligence"
DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’ Brains
Hello Skynet, is that you?
Science, you are really starting to creep me out.
(h/t The Verge)
“I think human and computer intelligence will be mixed together just as it is now. A war between a group that used the latest technology and a group of humans who eschewed modern technology would be a very short war.”
Ray Kurzweil (via Las Vegas Sun News)
While the idea of charming entities all around us, guiding us through everyday tasks and reminding us to do things throughout the day may seem benign, some experts raise concerns about the implications of robots in our daily lives. Once designers can perfect the art of manipulation, manufacturers can use this power to entice people to adopt behaviors that may not be in their best interest. There could be, for instance, a robot that tempts you to buy more unhealthy food or buy a lottery ticket.
Carla Diana, “Talking, Walking Objects” via NYTimes
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“A Singularity has no business model, no major power group in our society is interested in provoking one, nobody who matters sees any reason to create one, there’s no there there.”
Bruce Sterling, via Edge
“Maybe a botnet will reach a threshold for self-awareness and apply for citizenship in a country that provides legal protections against forced labor. Maybe a group of aging supercomputers will suddenly file a class-action lawsuit in a federal court seeking legal protections against being summarily turned off without their consent.”
Peter Remine, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots (via NPR)
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Researchers at the University of Salzberg have programmed this robot, called Iuro, to navigate cities by asking for directions. If successful, it will prove that non-organics are more highly evolved than many men out there. #amiright?
The Computer That Beat Two Million Humans at Fantasy Football
Puny meatbags, your time is at an end.
“But reverse-engineering something that is the product of almost 4 billion years of evolution, that has been tweaked and finessed in complex and incomprehensible ways, and that is dependent on activity at a sub-cellular level, by hacking it apart and taking pictures of it? Total bollocks.”
PZ Myers on uploading brains to computers
