Category: logic
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Ethical Implications of a Moral Machine and a Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence Projects
In a bit of more cheery news, the top AI researchers have all AGREED on a list of ethical implications — almost an AI bill of rights — that need to be signed and accepted as industry standard for artificial intelligence projects. So far, about 760 developers and 1020 others have signed the agreement. I guess this will…
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War for Your Mind: Information in 2016
Today’s Guest Post comes from Cassie Phillips of Culture Coverage: There’s a war for your mind. While this statement can be cast aside as hyperbolic fearmongering, there is no denial that media, art, words and publishing have had a massive impact in molding our social mindset throughout history. From the playwrights of ancient Greece to our modern…
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The Flaw in Turing’s Test
In perhaps the finest single cinematic scene last year, we watched “Nathan” (Oscar Isaac) dance an eerie groove alongside one of his female robots “Kyoko” (Sonoya Mizuno) who mirrored him twerk for twerk. Nathan incarnates some dark fictional amalgamation of Larry Page and Travis Kalanick — a billionare isolated by his fame, his fortune, and his…