Ethical questions and frivolous consciences
Our Futurisms colleague Charlie Rubin had a smart, short piece over on the Huffington Post a couple weeks ago called...
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“What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive”
I have to admit that the cover of this month’s Atlantic, proclaiming “Why Machines Will Never Beat the Human...
Watson reax from an AI researcher, Ken Jennings, and others
I’d like to point our readers to a couple articles of note about IBM’s Watson and its Jeopardy! win. First,...
Watson, Can You Hear Me? (The Significance of the “Jeopardy” AI win)
Yesterday, on Jeopardy!, a computer handily beat its human competitors. Stephen Gordon asks, “Did the Singularity...
Progress in Robotics and AI: The Coming Demise of “Jeopardy”
With some irony, I expect, Gizmodo gave the following headline to a story this week about a rudimentary sprinting...
Ben Goertzel: “What you mean ‘we,’ human?”
[Continuing coverage of the 2010 H+ Summit at Harvard.] Ben Goertzel (bio, slides) delivers the last talk of the day,...
An Ideal Model for WBE (or, I Can Haz Whole-Brain Emulation)
In case you missed the hubbub, IBM researchers last month announced the creation of a powerful new brain simulation,...
Kurzweil and his critics
[Continuing coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City.] And now, Ray Kurzweil’s talk on response...
Enhancing cognitive abilities
[Continuing coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit.] The penultimate talk of the first day comes from William Dickens...
“Foundations of Intelligent Agents”
[Continuing coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit.] Up next, all the way from Australia, is Marcus Hutter on...