Previously we observed acceleration, discontinuity, and superintelligence as common to all accounts of the technological singularity. A useful definition, however, must also make explicit three additional distinguishing characteristics, which clarify what is at stake: the impenetrability of what lies beyond, its inevitability, and its looming proximity.
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The EU’s AI Act is in force, yet the Commission is still explaining what an “AI system” is. Your board duties are determined by a term everyone uses and no-one defines.
What is Intelligence, Part I: Intelligent at What? Read More »
In the era of AI coding agents, representing and enforcing software architecture is easier than ever. The Locality Criterion defines architecture in the simplest terms.
Software Architecture — A Simple Criterion Read More »
I edited the volume and chose no sides, putting skeptics and believers on equal footing. That was the right call in 2013. Thirteen years on, neutrality is no longer tenable — it is a dangerous evasion.
The Point of No Return: Singularity Hypotheses Retrospective Read More »
Notions of value of #currencies such as Bitcoin and the US Dollar presuppose that the exact value of each coin equals its exchange rate or price at each point in time, ie, the price of one coin is only ever defined in terms of another. Alternative notions of value are also defined in relative terms
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Roman V. Yampolskiy. CRC Press / Chapman & Hall, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series, February 2024, 250 pp. [publisher]
AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable Read More »
Steve Phelps, Rebecca Ranson. “Of Models and Tin Men: A Behavioural Economics Study of Principal-Agent Problems in AI Alignment using Large-Language Models”. arXiv:2307.11137, July 2023 [preprint]
Of Models and Tin Men: Principal-Agent Problems in AI Alignment Read More »
Steve Phelps, Yvan I. Russell. “The Machine Psychology of Cooperation: Can GPT Models Operationalise Prompts for Altruism, Cooperation, Competitiveness and Selfishness in Economic Games?” arXiv:2305.07970, May 2023, revised June 2024 [preprint]
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An open letter orchestrated by the Future of Life Institute calling for a six months moratorium on research in artificial intelligence, quoting risks attached to ‘the loss of control’ over self-improving AI. The experts — and cosignatories such as opinionated oligarchs notwithstanding — insist that the risks are both existential and imminent. The Singularity is back in
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Scientists at Sapience.org have made a breakthrough in understanding the real value of bitcoin Their discovery challenges the current understanding of the value of currencies and provides a way to calculate expected prices without relying on price history A relation discovered between information theory and finance could have far-reaching implications for monetary policy and Forex
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