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
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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.
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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.
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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-03 Author: Roman V. Yampolskiy Cybersecurity research involves publishing papers about malicious exploits as much as publishing information on how to design tools to protect cyber-infrastructure. It is this information exchange between ethical hackers and security experts, which results in a well-balanced cyber-ecosystem. In the blooming domain of AI Safety Engineering, hundreds
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A London Futurists Meetup 14 May 2016, 14:00–16:00, Birkbeck College
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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-02 Author: Anders Sandberg Does the energy requirements for the human brain give energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? In Energetics of the Brain & AI I review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the methods of estimating brain emulation energy requirements.
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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-1 Author: Amnon H. Eden ‘The Singularity Controversy, Part I: Lessons Learned and Open Questions: Conclusions from the Battle on the Legitimacy of the Debate‘ informs policy makers on the nature and the merit of the arguments for and against the concerns associated with a potential technological singularity. Part I describes the lessons learned from
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Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Computability Group, 12 Nov 2015
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Victor Callaghan. Oxford Journals, IT Now, Volume 57, Issue 2 (July 2015), pp. 52-55 [.pdf]
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David Pearce. In: Eden, Søraker, Moor, Steinhart (eds.), Singularity Hypotheses, Springer 2013, pp. 199-236
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