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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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, Birbeck College
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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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Amnon H. Eden, Johnny H. Soeraker, James H. Moor, Eric Steinhart (eds.) The Frontiers Collection, Springer 2013
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