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WARNING: Just Reading About This Thought Experiment Could Ruin Your Life
A thought experiment called "Roko's Basilisk" takes the notion of world-ending artificial intelligence to a new extreme, suggesting that all-powerful robots may one day torture those who didn't help...
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It Is Perfectly Moral To Torture A Robot — But We Should Never Do It
Carnegie Mellon University roboticist Heather Knight recently published a paper on the nature of the relationship between humans and robots.Knight arrives at the conclusion that humans and robots need...
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Researchers Have Made A Computer 'Think' Like A Person
IBM's latest brainlike computer chip may not be "smarter than a fifth-grader," but it can simulate millions of the brain's neurons and perform complex tasks using very little energy.Researchers for the...
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A Valuable New Book Explores The Potential Impacts Of Intelligent Machines On...
Humans like to think of themselves as special. But science has a way of puncturing their illusions. Astronomy has demoted Earth from the centre of the universe to just one planet among zillions....
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The Creators Behind Siri Are Working On A Crazy New Virtual Assistant That...
Today, virtual assistants like Siri and Google Now can answer simple requests, and even anticipate our needs based on our location.While that seems useful, the brains behind Siri are creating an...
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Here's The World's First Robotics Company To Pledge Not To Make 'Killer Robots'
Waterloo-based robotic vehicle manufacturer Clearpath Robotics is the first robotics company to sign on with the Campaign To Stop Killer Robots, "an international coalition of non-governmental...
View ArticleNot Even Doctors And Lawyers Are Safe From Machines Taking Their Jobs
Robots, software, and automatons of any sort don't need to be perfect to steal jobs from flesh-and-blood humans — they only need to be better than them.So goes the conceit of the above video, "Humans...
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Soon There May Only Be 2 Types Of Jobs: Coding Computers And Getting Bossed...
People who know how to program computers have job security, and that probably won't change anytime soon.James Preston-Werner, co-founder of community coding startup Github, believes there will only be...
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Robotics Researchers Are Turning The Internet Into A Giant Robot Brain
One of the biggest challenges in building useful robots lies in simply teaching them about our world. Robotics researchers at Cornell, Stanford, Brown, and UC Berkeley are building a compelling...
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This App Lets People Wearing Google Glass See Your True Emotions (GOOG)
How are you feeling today? Now someone else wearing Google Glass can answer that question for you.The Shore Human Emotion Detector (SHORE), can detect basic emotions, someone's gender and predict how...
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We Should Be Terrified Of Superintelligent Machines
Adapted from Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom. Out now from Oxford University Press.In the recent discussion over the risks of developing superintelligent machines—that is,...
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If We Make A Brain In A Computer, Is It Conscious?
Imagine standing in an open field with a bucket of water balloons and a couple of friends. You've decided to play a game called "Mind." Each of you has your own set of rules. Maybe Molly will throw a...
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Meet Amelia: The Computer That's After Your Job
In February 2011 an artificially intelligent computer system called IBM Watson astonished audiences worldwide by beating the two all-time greatest Jeopardy champions at their own game.Thanks to its...
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5 Ways Superintelligence Could Come Into Existence
Biological brains are unlikely to be the final stage of intelligence.Machines already have superhuman strength, speed and stamina – and one day they will have superhuman intelligence. The only reasons...
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ELON MUSK: Robots Could Delete Humans Like Spam
Elon Musk took to the stage Wednesday night at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit to warn attendees that advanced artificial intelligence could spell the end of humanity.Interviewed by Walter...
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How IBM's Watson Could Transform The Way We Treat Cancer
"You know my methods, Watson."– Sherlock HolmesEven those who have only a passing interest in computer technology may have heard of Watson, a third-generation computing system developed at IBM that...
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Here's The One Problem We Need To Solve To Create Computers With Human-Like...
Computers have been making trades on Wall Street, diagnosing patients like doctors, and even composing music that moves and inspires. But no matter how moving the movie "Her" was — they don't yet have...
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Here's What 'Terminator' Gets Wrong About AI
In a lot of science fiction, artificial intelligence systems become truly intelligent — as well as extremely dangerous — once they achieve self-awareness.Take the "Terminator" series. Before becoming...
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Humans Aren't Creating Superintelligent Machines For Scientific Reasons — We...
Why are we so taken with the idea of machines that can think like we can? Perhaps, one futurist suggests, this fascination is rooted not in scientific curiosity but in sexual urges, even romantic...
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Google Is Building Up A Strong Team To Tackle Artificial Intelligence (GOOG)
Google just upped its bid to get to the forefront of artificial intelligence research through the acqui-hire of two British AI companies and a subsequent partnership with Oxford University. Earlier...
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