Category: Artificial Intelligence
Turing Test dismissed – George Dvorsky
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As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test, though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that's nonsense. Here's ...
Time To Envision Who We Are And Where We Want To Go – Steve Omohundro
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Steve Omohundro is a scientist, professor, author, and entrepreneur who has a Ph.D. in physics but has spent decades studying intelligent systems and artificial intelligence. His research into the basic "AI Drives" wa...
The long-term future of AI
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Daniel Dewey is a research fellow in the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. His research includes paths and timelines to machine supe...
The Legacy of “2001: A Space Odyssey” – Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick
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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 British-American science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke's short ...
A Non-Trivial Pursuit of Happiness – Paradise Engineering with David Pearce
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Imagine that the best experience possible - and imagine that it would be lower than tomorrows floor. It may be that our decedents will have the chance to re-engineer themselves to be able to experience well-being f...
Ex Machina – Official Trailer
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Ex Machina is your standard film script of boy meets girl. Except that this girl is a robot: a robot girlfriend programmed by a sociopathic billionaire. And she is a robot who may just want a mind of her own - wit...
Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach – Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy
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Roman V. Yampolskiy holds a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. There he was a recipient of a four year NSF (National Science Foundation) IGERT (Integrative...
IBM’s Watson – The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson...
David Pearce – H. G. Wells Utopia
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Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Well's The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. "That which does not...
THE AI REVOLUTION: THE ROAD TO SUPERINTELLIGENCE
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(AI topic starts at 28:50) Tim dug into research on Artificial Intelligence. He could not believe what he was reading. It hit him pretty quickly that what’s happening in the world of AI is not just an important topic,...
Building Gods Documentary – Transhumanism Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology
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This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications. Different individuals with different backgrounds are interviewed on the subject, including...
Our Final Invention – James Barrat
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Singularity 1 on 1: James Barrat on Our Final Invention For 20 years James Barrat has created documentary films for National Geographic, the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel and public television. In 2000, d...