Video Friday: The Coming Transhuman Era — Jason Sosa at TEDxGrandRapids
Jason Sosa founder of computer vision and artificial intelligence company IMRSV on the coming transhuman era.
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AI
We Need a Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence
When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) – which we have done lot recently, including my outline on The Conversation of liability and regulation issues – what do we actually mean?
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The Space of Mind Designs and the Human Mental Model
What is a mind? No universal definition exists.
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Applied Examples of Analog Biomorphic Design (ICRA 2014)
This session was part of a large IEEE academic robotics conference) in Hong Kong; organized by Ben Goertzel, David Hanson, Mark Tilden and Gino Yu
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Roko’s Basilisk Meets Okor’s Basilisk
This article presents a new counterargument to Roko's Basilisk.
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Who’s to Blame When Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong?
We’ve already started discussions around driverless cars, but there’s so much more to deal with when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Creativity
At Rutgers' Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, my colleagues and I proposed a novel algorithm that assessed the creativity of any given painting, while taking into account the painting’s context within the scope of art history. The results show that humans are no longer the only judges of creativity. Computers can perform the same task – and may even be more objective.
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The Philosophical Importance of Algorithms
In the future, every decision that mankind makes is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson…and our lives will be better for it. (Ginni Rometty commenting on IBM’s Watson) I’ve written a few posts now about the social and ethical implications of algorithmic governance (algocracy). Today, I want to take a slightly more general perspective on the same topic. To be precise, I want to d...
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Ben Goertzel – Emergence, Reduction & Artificial Intelligence
The concept of emergence is controversial to some – for example Eliezer Yudkowski, who favors reductionism, wrote a critique at Less Wrong (see link below). Do reductionists often dismiss emergence? Ben formalized emergence in his book ‘The Evolving Mind’ as patterns that appear when you put two or more things together that are not there in any of the individual parts. “Th...
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Video Friday: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Robots, Trusting Technology
As artificial intelligence technology advances, a portion of our population cannot help but react with panic.
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