Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

The Technium

A Conversation with Kevin Kelly  

 

Conversations at the Edge 2.3.14

 

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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom and A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock – review

Will technology remain our slave? Caspar Henderson on two attempts to read the future for humanity

Caspar Henderson | The Guardian
Thursday 17 July 2014

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What Your Computer Can’t Know

John R. Searle | New York Review of Books
October 9, 2014

The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality
by Luciano Floridi
Oxford University Press, 248 pp., $27.95

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
Oxford University Press, 328 pp., $29.95

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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts

Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong

By Lee Gomes | IEEE Spectrum
Posted 20 Oct 2014

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The Myth Of AI

A Conversation with Jaron Lanier

Conversations at the Edge 11.14.14

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Artificial Intelligence, Really, Is Pseudo-Intelligence

Alva Noë | NPR 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog
November 21, 2014

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Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence

Kurt Andersen wonders: If the Singularity is near, will it bring about global techno-Nirvana or civilizational ruin?

By Kurt Andersen
November 26, 2014

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Is AI a Myth?

By Rick Searle | IEET
Utopia or Dystopia
Nov 30, 2014

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Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

By Rory Cellan-Jones
BBC News | 2 December 2014