A Logic Named Joe
A Logic Named Joe is one of the earliest fictional examples of a dangerous emergent artificial intelligence.
Category: AI
Artificial Intelligence for General Game Playing
A GENERAL GAME PLAYING (GGP) SYSTEM is one that can play arbitrary games based solely on formal game descriptions supplied at “runtime”.
Slowly, Clunkily Racing Toward the Robot Revolution: Lessons from the DARPA Grand Challenge
What went right with the DARPA Grand Challenge? What went wrong? What was learned? What comes next?
Redefining the Relationship of Man and Machine – an audio-visual meditation
A video meditative reading of his chapter from the 2015 book The Future of Business.
Video Friday: Shane Legg – Machine Super Intelligence and the Halloween Scenario
Human level AI will be passed in the mid 2020’s, though many people won’t accept that this has happened. After this point the risks associated with advanced AI will start to become practically important.
The Real Scorpion
My first impression of the real Scorpion (Walter O’Brien) was nothing at all like the one portrayed on the hit CBS show of the same name, now in its second season.
What will the advent of advanced Artificial Intelligences and robotics mean for humanity?
The potential for humans to become new kinds of minds via means of AGI and other technologies, will bring amazing new possibilities for joy, growth and choice.
Ray Kurzweil’s Double-Edged Absurdity
Technology isn’t a doubled-edged sword. At worst it is a 99% good sword and tiny 1% bad sword. Doubled-edged implies a 50/50 harm/goodness.
The People Who Think We Could Live Forever
Part of BBC’s ‘Intelligent Machines Week’ and includes an excellent interview with Humanity+ board member Dr. Ben Goertzel, and more.
DISRUPTIVE EVOLUTION — Transhumanism and Survival of the Quickest
Is Transhumanism an exercise in Unnatural Selection?