Do We Love Robots Because We Hate Ourselves?
A piece by our very own Ari N. Schulman, on WashingtonPost.com today: … Even as the significance of the Turing...
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Passing the Ex Machina Test
Like Her before it, the film Ex Machina presents us with an artificial intelligence — in this case, embodied as a...
Killer Robots: The Arms Race and the Human Race
[Continuing coverage of the UN’s 2015 conference on killer robots. See all posts in this series here.] I mentioned in...
Feelings, Identity, and Reality in Her
Her is an enjoyable, thoughtful and rather sad movie anticipating a possible future for relations between us and our...
Thanks to Computers, We Are “Getting Better at Playing Chess”
According to an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, “Chess-playing computers, far from revealing the...
Speculations on the Future of AI
Thanks for the shoutout and the kind words, Adam, about my review of Kurzweil’s latest book. I’ll take a stab at...
Computerized Translation and Resurrecting the Dead
Tim Carmody wrote a fascinating article recently on the future of computerized translation, noting that Google recently...
There Is No ‘Undo’ Button for the Singularity
As a matter of clearing up the record, I’d like to point out a recent post by Michael Anissimov in which he points...
Revolution! — Within Reason
What a difference a day makes! On Tuesday, Michael Anissimov posted a plea to his readers to aid the Existential Risk...
Can we control AI? Will we walk away?
While the Singularity Hub normally sticks to reporting on emerging technologies, their primary writer, Aaron Saenz,...