Original essays and commentary published to the Sapience.org blog.
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 »
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
The Singularity is Back Read More »
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
Press Release: Information Theory Measures Bitcoin’s Real Value Read More »
Last week’s DevBizOps blog entry (“Developer Documentation: Developers don’t like writing docs, what’s the alternative?“) asked: How programmers can get their answers from documentation, and are there alternatives? As ever Mark’s post advises on questions every developer has to ask in understanding software. Open source or proprietary, documentation is necessary either for using, extending, or
Don’t blame recruiters for searching for AI experts “with 8+ years experience in TensorFlow”. It’s what their clients are asking for. The hype around AI brought with it a flood of experts. As literal fortune flow into the (rightfully) promising technology, thousands of job openings are advertised with titles that include “artificial intelligence”, “AI”, “machine
Something Something AI Expert Read More »
Facebook has recently revised their privacy policy by virtually admitting to errors made in the 2016 presidential elections campaign. But that’s clearly not enough. Is legislation required? Is government intervention appropriate? Should Facebook be broken up? What about other information giants? Here to help us answer this question is the term ‘policy vacuum’ introduced in 2005 by Jim Moor, a professor of ethics in Dartmouth College and celebrated technology ethicist.
Should Facebook be broken up? The lesson of Policy Vacuums Read More »
Last month Deep Mind’s latest AI broke another record, winning 5-0 against one of the world’s strongest professional players. This victory forces us to revisit our preconceptions and recognise how creative machine learning has become.
Can AI be creative? Read More »