bengoertzel wrote a new post, Humans for Transparency in Artificial Intelligence 6 years, 6 months ago
Recent dramatic progress in artificial intelligence (AI) leads us to believe that Ray Kurzweil’s prediction of human level AI by 2029 may be roughly accurate. Even if reality proves to be a bit different, still i […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Slowly, Clunkily Racing Toward the Robot Revolution: Lessons from the DARPA Grand Challenge 6 years, 11 months ago
I had mixed feelings about the DARPA Robotics Grand Challenge when I first heard about it. On the one hand, it sounded really cool — making humanoid robots drive cars, climb ladders, use power tools and ca […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Should Africans Learn to Code? 7 years, 9 months ago
Randomly clicking through Singularity Hub as I do from time to time, I happened on an article by someone named Nathaniel Calhoun, titled “Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional.”Initially, […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, AI, Can We Destroy the Asteroid? 7 years, 9 months ago
bengoertzel replied to the topic Review of "Transforming Humanity" by Maxwell Leistung in the forum h+ Magazine 7 years, 10 months ago
Peter — I wrote it as a book review because I felt the topic really deserved a book, not just an article … but I didn’t have time to write the book, at least not for the next year or so ;D
Maybe someone else will do some “reverse engineering” and write the book corresponding to the book review — that would be pretty funny ;D …. Book…[Read more]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, More AI Scare Talk from Stephen Hawking 7 years, 10 months ago
The barrage of AI scare propaganda increases!A couple months ago it was Nick Bostrom with his book Superintelligence (a nicely-written, rather academic-ish book arguing at length and with great complication […]
bengoertzel replied to the topic What Do Elon Musk and the Taliban Have in Common? in the forum h+ Magazine 7 years, 11 months ago
Serban: Yeah, I have read lots of Nick Bostrom’s stuff and also debated/discussed with him and his FHI colleagues in person at Oxford.
See my dialogue with MIRI honcho Luke Muehlhauser at http://19k.0d3.mwp.accessdomain.com/2012/05/05/how-dangerous-is-artificial-general-intelligence-muelhauser-interviews-goertzel/ … he thinks basically the same…[Read more]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Elon Musk’s Demonization of AI 7 years, 11 months ago
Over the last week or so the tech media has been energetically propagating a quote by Silicon Valley hero Elon Musk, in which he equates AI development with summoning demons:“With artificial intelligence we […]
bengoertzel replied to the topic Response to Julia Mossbridge's Critique of Transhumanism in the forum h+ Magazine 8 years ago
The following are some comments on the post, sent to me via email from Julia Mossbridge…
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FROM JULIA:
***As to your three thoughts on re-reading…
1) The argument that essentially runs, “well, we use technology for purpose X so why not for purpose Y” — which I think is your point here — seems to be a bit silly to me, in that there are…[Read more]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Response to Julia Mossbridge's Critique of Transhumanism 8 years ago
Julia Mossbridge, a neuroscientist for whom I have loads of respect, has recently written a blog post that is (in Julia’s warm, friendly way) rather critical of transhumanism...In a follow-up conversation on a […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, We are Watching Sousveillance Gradually Emerge, and Expose More and More Abuses of Power 8 years ago
Living in this amazing time that we do, we have the privilege to watch concepts go from futuristic conjecture to everyday reality within our lifespans….The emergence of sousveillance is a wonderful example […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Mormonism: The Most Transhumanist Religion? 11 years, 5 months ago
bengoertzel wrote a new post, João Pedro de Magalhães' Path to Ending Aging 11 years, 6 months ago
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Seeking the Sputnik of AGI 11 years, 6 months ago
Hugo de Garis Interviews Ben Goertzel
on AGI, OpenCog, China, and the Future of IntelligenceA couple months after I (Ben Goertzel) interviewed my good friend and sometime research collaborator Hugo de Garis […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Could AGI Prevent Future Nuclear Disasters? 11 years, 6 months ago
In the wake of a tragedy like the nuclear incidents we’re currently seeing in Japan, one of the questions that rises to the fore is: What can we do to prevent similar problems in the future?
This question […]
bengoertzel wrote a new post, Francis Heylighen on the Emerging Global Brain 11 years, 6 months ago
bengoertzel wrote a new post, R.U. Sirius on Transhumanism and Counterculture 11 years, 7 months ago
In the H+ Magazine context, R. U. Sirius is truly the Man Who Needs No Introduction. R. U. was the Editor of H+ Magazine from its inception until early this year, and remains a regular contributor — and has […]bengoertzel wrote a new post, Why an Intelligence Explosion is Probable 11 years, 7 months ago
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