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…enties, Danny Hillis developed the algorithms that made possible the massively parallel computer. In 1983, his company, Thinking Machines, built the world's fastest supercomputer by utilizing parallel architecture. His "connection machine," closely reflected the workings of the h...

…ogram, and the author of Social Physics. In the last half-century, the idea of AI and intelligent robots has dominated thinking about the relationship between humans and computers. In part, this is because it’s easy to tell the stories about AI and robots, and in part because of...

…computer with 64,000 processors. He named it the Connection Machine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That...

…ople seem to see things the same way. What do we want the book to do? Stewart Brand has noted that “revisiting pioneer thinking is perpetually useful. And it gives a long perspective that invites thinking in decades and centuries about the subject. All contemporary discussion, i...

…e how we innovate, make progress, and create abstract understanding for its own sake. This is human-level intelligence: thinking. It is also, or should be, the property we seek in artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here I'll reserve the term “thinking” for processes that can...

…igure 5.4 also encompasses metacognition, under the hypothesis that in human beings and human-like minds, metacognitive thinking is carried out using basically the same processes as plain ordinary deliberative thinking, perhaps with various tweaks optimizing them for thinking abo...

Origins February 24 — 26, 2017 PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes 5) Al, GOALS, AND INADVERTENT SIDE EFFECTS Runaway Resource Monopoly (focus) Self-improvemen...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...

explain a puzzle in our lives or to help us through trauma. These stories are narratives that provide new truths by denying particular elements of reality. They represent the mind’s method of filling in gaps, providing justifications for what we can’t explain or wish to explain i...

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Promise and Peril of AI by John Brockman Seth Lloyd: Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever It is exactly in the extension of the cybernetic idea to human beings that Wiener’s conceptions missed their target. Judea Pearl: The...

Even though a supercomputer can “train” a clone of zemself in seconds, the energy cost of producing a mature silicon clone is comparable. Engineering (Homo) prodigies might make a small impact on this slow process, but speeding up development and implanting extensive memory (as D...

terrifying Golden Rules of Computer Security.“Rule One: Don’t Own A Computer.” The machine that Morris Jr. created was madeentirely of software. It took the form ofa compact, simply designed computer program he’d written and designed to spread quickly and easily on the young syst...

agent that perceives, and acts in order to maximize, its expected utility. Subfields such as logical planning, robotics, and natural-language understanding are special cases of the general paradigm. AI has incorporated probability theory to handle uncertainty, utility theory to d...

…oticias Inmigrante china a favor del Brexit porque su "empleado español siempre está dormido" https://t.co/oJPuauc9FG thinking about my friends who voted in today’s #brexit vote RT @JetSetterRyan: 80% of Americans think the U.K. should leave the EU. They're right. #Brexit #Ch...