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Category Archives: AI

Trump’s Political-Technological Kryptonite | Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/trump-political-technological-kryptonite-robot-revolution?mbid=social_facebook

US vs. China vs. Russia: AI weapons the new arms race

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/robotics-scientist-warns-of-terrifying-future-as-world-powers-embark-on-ai-arms-race/news-story/d61a1ce5ea50d080d595c1d9d0812bbe

AI competition experiments

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/google-deepmind-ai-cooperation-research/

All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines – The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-great-forgetting/309516/

Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years — Quartz

https://qz.com/185945/drones-are-about-to-upheave-society-in-a-way-we-havent-seen-in-700-years/

World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence | Technology | The Guardian

Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional volatility

Source: World’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence | Technology | The Guardian

The Technium: Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI

http://kk.org/thetechnium/why-i-dont-worry-about-a-super-ai/

Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3064550/energy-efficiency-is-key-to-taking-on-climate-change-here-are-the-numbers-that-matter

How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Four people involved in the creation of an industry partnership say its intent will be clear: to ensure that A.I. research is focused on things that will benefit people, not hurt them.

Source: How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

Google Doesn’t Want to Accidentally Make Skynet, So It’s Creating an AI Off Switch

There are two unmistakable sides to the debate concerning the future of artificial intelligence. In the “boom” corner are companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft aggressively investing in technology to make AI systems smarter and smarter. And in the “doom” corner are prominent thinkers like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking who’ve said that AI is like “summoning the demon.”

Source: Google Doesn’t Want to Accidentally Make Skynet, So It’s Creating an AI Off Switch

 

http://intelligence.org/files/Interruptibility.pdf