Perhaps nothing signaled the arrival of artificial intelligence quite like January 14, 2011, when IBM Watson defeated two legendary Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. At last, the computers were smarter than us. Since then, Watson has developed into a growth engine for IBM. For just over two years, Michael […]
Source: IBM Watson Head Mike Rhodin On The Future Of Artificial Intelligence – Forbes
It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.
Source: Consciousness Is Not Mysterious
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
Source: The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 4 — Medium
Artificial intelligence capabilities research is aimed at making computer systems more intelligent — able to solve a wider range of problems more effectively and efficiently. We can distinguish this from research specifically aimed at making AI systems at various capability levels safer, or more “robust and beneficial.” In this post, I distinguish three kinds of direct… Read more »
Source: Safety engineering, target selection, and alignment theory – Machine Intelligence Research Institute
A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end
One cognitive scientist thinks the leading approach to machine learning can be improved by ideas gleaned from studying children.
Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.
They’re funding a new organization, OpenAI, to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence — and give the …
Source: How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Backchannel — Medium