Is it smarter than a seven-month-old in The Economist 4 September 2021
Machine learners and symbolisers are still at odds. This is the problem that currently bedevils...
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Category: AI
Legal Researchers Weigh in on How Future Laws Should Deal With The Rise of The Sexbots by David Neild on TechPost & Science 14 August
Blending AI with ethics will be a real tough nut. There is always a small number of really...
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Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid Robot to Take Over ‘Boring’ Work by Dana Hull and Edward Ludlow on Bloomberg 20 August 2021
It may be premature but it is the future. There has been a mixed reaction to Tesla’s announcement...
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Where’s my robot car? By Jeff Hecht in New Scientist 31 July 2021
The car of the future is taking years to emerge. The car of the future is likely to be powered by...
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Pentagon using AI to figure out what enemy will do next by Michael Evans in The Times 3 August 2021
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The US is developing a highly advanced AI to work out what...
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Patently brilliant … AI listed as inventor for first time by Tom Knowles in The Times 28 July 2021
And so it begins. The South Africa patent office has listed an algorithm as the inventor of...
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Future Proof from The Centre for Long-term Resilience June 2021
Keep an eye out for the conjunction of AI and weapons. The AI industry is largely fixated on the...
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AI is learning how to create itself by Will Douglas Heaven in MIT Technology Review 27 May 2021
This may be the way forward to artificial general intelligence. Researchers have developed a...
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Beijing-funded AI researchers surpass Google and OpenAI with new language processing model by Coco Feng in South China Morning Post 2 June 2021
China researchers overtake the US in natural language processing. The new WuDao 2.0 natural...
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Bart Selman interviewed by Lucas Perry on the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence from the Future of Life Institute 20 May 2021
Wide-ranging discussion on the future of AI, including artificial superintelligence. Selman notes...
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Autonomous military drones may have attacked humans by David Hambling in New Scientist 5 June 2021
This genie is not going back into the bottle. Last year, autonomous lethal drones apparently...
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Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground by Allan Dafoe et al in Nature 4 May 2021
The future will be about the relationship between AI and humans. This excellent article describes...
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Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 2021
Is Klara a sentient robot? At one level, we can never know, just as we cannot tell for sure that...
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Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI by Siobhan Roberts in MIT Technology Review 16 April 2021
Another assault on flexible thinking. There are only two hurdles left to jump before creating the...
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A machine that thinks like us by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 17 April 2021
The meaning of consciousness continues to confuse people. Apparently, researchers have developed a...
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Futureproof by Kevin Roose 2021
Are there ways to protect yourself from being displaced by a robot? Roose accurately describes the...
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A quantum trick with photons gives AI a speed boost by Leah Crane in New Scientist 20 March 2021
AI’s power will be revolutionised by quantum computing. Machine learning has advanced hugely over...
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To be a machine by Mark O’Connell 2017
Transhumanism is still very much a minority sport. This is a snappy take on the transhumanist...
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year by Catherine Clifford on CNBC 17 March 2021
AI shows us the way towards a universal basic income. We have still not yet grasped that the pace...
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Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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