But could the psychotic computer ever be conscious? That’s another story. Marks, an author of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, weighs in, on the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
At one point on the trip from Earth to Jupiter, HAL becomes suspicious that the crew might be sabotaging the mission. HAL then purposely tries to kill all the crew. The most logical explanation for this act is a coding error. HAL was programmed to operate on the basis that the mission took priority over human life. By contrast, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov did not allow his AI to kill. … More.
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AI That Can Read Minds? Deconstructing AI Hype: The source for the claims seems to be a 2018 journal paper, “Real-time classification of auditory sentences using evoked cortical activity in humans.” The carefully described results are indeed significant but what the Daily Mail article didn’t tell you sheds a rather different light on the AI mind reader. (Robert J.Marks)
Robogeddon!! Pause. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs Jay Richards, author of The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines, sees it as more of a retooling than a meltdown. But retooling does mean change, work, cost, and risk.
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Silicon Valley as a colonial power An Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation.” The social media companies will force us to define ourselves over against the specifications of our would-be programmers. And say what you want about the conflict, it will never be dull.
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