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… like saying that the risk of losing to DeepBlue or AlphaGo is negligible—all one has to do is make the right moves. e Human-level or superhuman AI is impossible This is an unusual claim for AI researchers to make, given that, from Turing onward, they have been fending off such...

…ded symbolically — but is the understanding in our brains simply encoded by symbols? What is the physics that underlies human understanding? Each summer I go on holiday to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of...

…ive intelligence of the world to more fully participate — but also potentially allows the more unsavory elements of the human race to take some of the publicly-developed AGI concepts and tools private, and develop them into AGIs with selfish or evil purposes in mind. Is there som...

more similar to each other than any one is to a human brain. What changed since we split off from our ape cousins is both the overall geometry of the brain in terms of the relative size of different components, as well as the connections both within and between these components....

…ncerns 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 combines the simple face detection of...

risk easily managed and far in the future, but also it’s extremely unlikely that we'd even try to move billions of humans to Mars in the first place. The analogy is a false one, however. We are already devoting huge scientific and technical resources to creating ever-more-capable...

…pture, navigation, and tissue targeting.” Specifically, these “medical robots” perform computer-assisted surgery, with human medical surgeons operating a remote surgical device via a console. In fact, they are not really robots as we know them: AVRA has developed a "novel and tr...

…s the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities. Reading small collections of carefully chosen works enables scholars to make powerful inferences about trends in human thought. However, this appro...

…l Brains The Chicago Social Brain Network was established to examine how science might inform us about our fundamental human nature, including the apparently irrepressible quest for connection with a higher understanding and organization. Science can describe what religion does...

…o Recent Posts Popular Posts I believe this is biology's century. I've covered science and medicine for Forbes from the Human Genome Project through Vioxx to the blossoming DNA technology changing the world today. Email me, follow me on Twitter, circle me onGoogle Plus, or subscr...

…mata, their interactivity, their responsiveness within an artificially modulated environment, and their “reflection” of human behaviors. The ICA’s “Cybernetic Serendipity” introduced an important paradigm: the machinic ecosystem, in which the viewer was a biological part, tasked...

…an Anthropologist, 109(3), 485-495; Sussman, R.W. 1999. The myth of man the hunter, man the killer and the evolution of human morality (evolutionary and religious perspectives on morality). Zygon 34: 453-472 Tobena, A. (2011). Suicide Attack Martyrdoms: Temperament and Mindset of...

…ion highlights is that our perception of evildoers and evilrecipients is influenced by our sense of what it means to be human. Though evildoers and evilreceivers overlap in their capacities to think and feel, there are differences, captured by Aristotle’s distinction between mora...

… that have worth or value, some are more valuable than others. So it is with moral worth. This is where departures from humanness get interesting, dangerously so. When we strip individuals of their moral worth, denying them qualities that define humanness, we have entered a world...

…17, 12:07 PM satellite observations to monitor and explain the changes happening around us. Her work has suggested that human activities are already affecting global rainfall and cloud patterns. Marvel is committed to sharing the joy and beauty of science with wider audiences. S...