Results for “Intelligence Squared”

… watch, Cherkashin politely excused himself. I subsequently spoke to Colonel Oleg Nechiporenko, who had been a foreign intelligence officer in the KGB between 1958 and 1985 and continued his intelligence work until recently as chief counterterrorism expert of the Russian-led Col...

… draw from all this? The particularities of the human mind/body should not be taken as general requirements for general intelligence. However, it is worth remembering just how difficult is the computational problem of learning, based on experiential feedback alone, the right way...

… have impact on our ability to do our mission for the next twenty to thirty years.” By any measure, two decades of lost intelligence is a steep price to pay. To be sure, the practical value of peacetime intelligence about the activities of adversary states is not always evident....

to their wireless set, waiting to hear whether the German army will advance on Warsaw. The Polish Intelligence Bureau badly needed to know what the German army was planning and had recruited this group of young mathematicians as code breakers. Up to this point, code- breaking had...

…tially in terms of the affordances it provides them for goal-directed action. This suggests that, to support human-like intelligence, an AGI must be capable of: 1. Perception of entities in the world as differentially associated with goal-relevant value 2. Perception of entities...

… Trump foreign policy advisers and who, it would turn out, the FBI was closely monitoring in what it said was a Russian intelligence effort to turn him. (Trump would later deny ever meeting Page, and the FBI would say that it believed Russian intelligence had targeted Page in an...

…r-test-ban treaty. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. eecs berkeley.edu/~russell Joseph Redmon Computer scientist Joseph Redmon works on the YOLO algorithm, which combi...

…esaw, and I am worried that it is much more pernicious than even his worst imagined fears. Frank Wilczek: The Unity of Intelligence The advantages of artificial over natural intelligence appear permanent, while the advantages of natural over artificial intelligence, though subs...

…xfiltrating Snowden from Hong Kong to get, aside from his docu- ments, whatever secrets he held in his head. If Russian intelligence were willing to opportunistically accept the delivery of U.S. secrets from an unknown espionage source that it neither recruited nor controlled, su...

…e campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.” From the Steele dossier, to the steady leaks from the U.S. intelligence community, to testimony and statements from the leadership of U.S. intelligence agencies, a firm consensus had emerged. There was a nefarious conne...

…here can be little doubt that his breach of the secrecy envelope had serious consequences for U.S., French, and British intelligence. For example, Francois Molins, the former head prosecutor of Paris, pointed out that after the Paris attacks the French investigation had run into...

…on. This interest continued in other books of mine, including Decep- tion, in which I investigated the vulnerability of intelligence services involved in espionage during the Cold War, and Agency of Fear (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977), in which I explored intelligence fail...

… Hawking, Max Tegmark, and numerous others, has insisted that attention be paid to the potential dangers in creating an intelligence on the superhuman (or even the human) level—an AGI, or artificial general intelligence, whose programmed purposes may not necessarily align with ou...

124 In view of such past successes of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem ex...

…ENTS oO 0 0 0 0 The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it agreed to brief House Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official conf...