Waiting for Singularity

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Singularity, Superintelligence. Facts, Hypotheses, Theories, Speculation, Hype and Fake News.

By Charles Wardell

Charles Wardell
CRISPR
CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery | Philosophy
stanford.edu
Twin revolutions at the start of the 21st century are shaking up the very idea of what it means to be human. Computer vision and image recognition …
Now
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Advertising Industry
Chatbots Can Make as Many Sales as Humans
Adweek - Patrick Kulp
Chatbots can match the performance of proficient human salespeople—or outperform inexperienced ones fourfold—but only when customers are unaware they …
September 29
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Medicine
Artificial intelligence in medicine raises legal and ethical concerns
kevinmd.com - Sharona Hoffman, JD
The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is generating great excitement and hope for treatment advances. AI generally refers to computers’ …
September 29
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Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?
Quanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett
In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up. When engineers first endeavored to teach computers to …
September 17
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk Wants to Merge Humans with Artificial Intelligence
dwell - Duncan Nielsen
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has created a new brain chip to help us make “better connections to the world, to ourselves, and to each other.” Elon Musk—whose ideas keep getting further and further out there—is
July 23
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A Changing Internet: The Convergence Of Blockchain, Internet Of Things, And Artificial Intelligence
Forbes - Jayshree Pandya
Jayshree Pandya is Founder of Risk Group & Host of Risk Roundup. As the internet evolves, what will be the impact of the convergence of the current IoT infrastructure with blockchain and artificial intelligence?
July 5
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Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
The Verge - Elizabeth Lopatto
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. The goal is to eventually begin
July 17
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Artificial Intelligence
This Creepy AI Predicts What You Look Like Based on Your Voice
ScienceAlert - Jon Christian, Futurism
A new artificial intelligence created by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pulls off a staggering feat: by analyzing only a …
June 1
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Machine learning is totally changing what we think of as literature
Wired UK - Will Bedingfield
The definition of sci-fi is notoriously slippery. For some the genre is defined by its authors and landmark novels – starting with Twenty Thousand …
June 2
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Artificial intelligence has been weaponized in China. That should be a wake-up call for the world
CBC News - cbc logo
At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, the philanthropist George Soros caught everyone's attention when he warned that the Chinese …
May 21
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Govt plans introducing artificial intelligence system in MCA 21 portal
indiatimes.com
Corporate affairs ministry plans to introduce artificial intelligence system in the MCA 21 portal as it seeks to make compliance process easier as …
May 19
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Could Neuralink Lead To The Technological Singularity?
interestingengineering.com - Christopher McFadden
Neuralink, if Elon Musk is to be believed, could be the next step in human evolution. The company's Neural Lace technology could help stave off the …
April 30
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Neuralink
Elon Musk’s Brain Tech Startup Is Raising More Cash
Bloomberg - Sarah McBride
Neuralink, a small and secretive brain computing startup founded by Elon Musk, has raised $39 million of a planned $51 million funding round, …
May 10
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It's time to address artificial intelligence's ethical problems
Wired UK - Abigail Beall
Whether it’s robots coming to take your job or AI being used in military drones, there is no shortage of horror stories about artificial …
Aug 24, 2018
Charles Wardell
Military
The Air Force is exploring AI-powered autonomous drones
Engadget - Amrita Khalid
The Air Force wants to see if AI-powered autonomous drones can help human pilots better perform their mission. In a press release, the Air Force said it was seeking input from the tech industry in a new
March 28
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Singularity
The Troubling Trajectory Of Technological Singularity
Forbes - Jayshree Pandya
As humanity stands on the brink of a technology triggered information revolution, the scale, scope and complexity of the impact of intelligence evolution in machines is unlike anything humankind has experienced
February 10
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Protecting Humanity In The Face Of Artificial Intelligence
Forbes - Jayshree Pandya
Introduction The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) — from artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), through artificial general intelligence (AGI), to artificial superintelligence (ASI) — is on its
January 4
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How China Is Dominating Artificial Intelligence
Forbes - Louis Columbus
The Boston Consulting Group’s study Mind the (AI) Gap: Leadership Makes the Difference published earlier this month provides insights into China’s emerging global leadership of AI. A copy of the study
Dec 16, 2018
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Surveillance fears grow after Taylor Swift uses face recognition tech on fans
The Guardian - Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco
Pop star’s reported use of software to root out stalkers may be well meant, but it fuels a disturbing trend, experts say Taylor Swift secretly surveilling her fans using facial recognition technology sound
Dec 14, 2018
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Fears About Artificial Intelligence Are 'Very Legitimate,' Google CEO Says
NDTV - Tony Romm, Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post
But Sundar Pichai says the technology - the backbone of innovations such as driverless cars and disease-detecting algorithms - offers "tremendous …
Dec 13, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence and the coming of the self-designing machine
Ars Technica - Pam Baker
AI and generative design are set to change everything we know about manufacturing. Welcome to Ars UNITE, our week-long virtual conference on the ways …
Dec 6, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence
Meet Viv, the Artificial Intelligence That Will Change the Way You Live
futurism.com - Todd Jaquith
Meet Viv, the Artificial Intelligence That Will Change the Way You Live The winds of change are blowing through Silicon Valley—not terribly unusual, …
May 9, 2016
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The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary
The Guardian - Zach Vasquez
In a cautionary film, director Maxim Pozdorovkin lays out the many ways that automation could affect us in the long term from labor to sex to psychology When it comes to the dangers posed to us by automatons,
Nov 26, 2018
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Will AI Help Human Investors, or Replace Them?
Barron's - Tom Teodorczuk
British mathematician Alan Turing developed the Turing Test, a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), in 1950. The test …
Nov 24, 2018
Charles Wardell
How AI is being used to vet babysitters, screen applicants and watch employees
Axios
Predictim, an online service that uses artificial intelligence to assess a babysitter’s personality, scans candidates' Facebook, Twitter and …
Nov 24, 2018
Charles Wardell
Translation
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futurism.com - June Javelosa
Google’s Neural Network for Language Translation Narrows Gap Between Machines & Humans By virtue of how many words, phrases, and grammar rules there …
Sep 28, 2016
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Robots Are Killing People. How Worried Should We Be?
The Daily Beast - Libby Torres
The specter haunting Europe—and the rest of the world, for that matter—isn’t communism anymore, as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels so famously wrote …
Nov 24, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence
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futurism.com - Kyree Leary
In a Major Breakthrough, Google Unveils an AI That Learns on its Own This is the beginning of a new age in AI. We’ve written before about how Google is …
Oct 18, 2017
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Oh great, AI will apparently match humans in creativity and emotional intelligence soon
bgr.com - Andy Meek
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and …
Nov 9, 2018