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 ...
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 ...
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...
Crime-Fighting Robotic Guard… for $6.25 an Hour
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Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus has a new security team-- 300-pound robots equipped with high-def, omnidirectional video capture, thermal imaging, infrared, radar, and more are patrolling around. They're cal...
Why AI will probably kill us all.
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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...
Ray Kurzweil – Futurist
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Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech reco...
Book: WWW Trilogy – Robert J. Sawyer
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Review of WWW Trilogy, by Kron Kyrios This review is from: WWW: Wake (Hardcover) Personally, I see this as one long story, and would not recommend simply reading any one or two volumes of this trilogy. Therefore, ...
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...
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,...
Are We Building Gods or Terminators? – Hugo de Garis
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Hugo de Garis is the past director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) at Xiamen University in China. Best known for his doomsday book The Artilect War, Dr. de Garis has always been on my wish-list of future guests on S...