It’s been 76 years since renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov penned his Laws of Robotics. At the time, they must have seemed future-proof. But just how well do those rules hold up in a world where AI has permeated society so deeply we don’t even see it anymore? Read full Article
This essay is featured in Global Dystopias. Order your copy here. This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love Big Brother, who lives, if he lives at all, on a cluster of server farms, cooled by environmentally friendly technologies. Read full Article
Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative. By Work is the master of the modern world. For most people, it is impossible to imagine society without it. Read full Article
Garry cringed, like someone just spit in his breakfast. Pawn to f5. Blue remained silent, like it just spit in someone else’s breakfast. Rook to e7: taking Garry’s queen. Read full Article
A growing number of governments and public sector organisations are adopting artificial intelligence tools and techniques to assist with their activities. Read full Article
Silicon Valley has lost some of its shine in recent months, what with the “fake news” and the bots and the hacks and the hate speech. All the promises about the democratization of information and power ring a little hollow these days. I’d say they rang a little hollow all along. Read full Article
Moravec’s paradox is the discovery by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources. Read full Article
I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through. But for much of the next 24 hours after that alert, I heard almost nothing about the shooting. Read full Article
We’re not in the business of writing regularly about “fake” news, but it’s hard not to be concerned about the kind of mimicry technology is making possible. First, researchers developed deep learning-based artificial intelligence (A.I. Read full Article
We are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness; we are willing to do anything to reach a happy life. In the history of mankind happiness was an afterlife event promised by the gods and the angels. In our culture, we want it here, and we want it now. Read full Article
You can read the article in more detail, but also make sure you read the comments. As I began to write this, I was going to refute each argument in detail. However, after a bit of thought, Kelly’s arguments are without any merit that its not worth the effort to refute. Read full Article
The robot apocalypse isn’t all bad news: A new study suggests artificial intelligence makes better lawyers than humans do. LawGeex pitted 20 experienced attorneys against a three-year-old algorithm trained to evaluate contracts. Spoiler alert: the computer won. Read full Article
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists, reflecting growing concern that swift progress in artificial intelligence could be harnessed to make killing machines more efficient Read full Article
“PRESS for progress” is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8th. As our sixth glass-ceiling index shows, disparity between countries remains wide. But women have made some progress towards equality in the workplace in the past year. Read full Article
Künstliche Intelligenz kann in Deutschland mit jährlich 10 Milliarden Euro zum Wirtschaftswachstum beitragen. Die Technologie ermöglicht vor allem Produktivitätssteigerung, wie eine Studie zeigt. Read full Article
Artificial intelligence is the hottest healthcare buzzword these days but a foremost tech executive warned Sunday that AI improves exponentially and there are real perils if allowed to advance unfettered. Read full Article
You can read the article in Spanish or French. Today the EU Commission released the final report from the High Level Expert Group on Fake News, entitled “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation”. Read full Article
AUSTIN — At SXSW 2018, artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere, even in the sessions that were not specifically about the subject. Read full Article
Facebook likes to present itself as a tech company, but often appears more like an advertising corporation that happens to use digital technology in order to conduct its core business. Read full Article
