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 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
Researchers at Sapience.org foresee market instability intensifying by the computer trading ‘arms race’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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 2016-02 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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Amnon H. Eden, Johnny H. Soeraker, James H. Moor, Eric Steinhart (eds.) The Frontiers Collection, Springer 2013
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