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Artificial Intelligence
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How World War II codebreaker Alan Turing invented modern AI.
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?
8mins
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
When it comes to spotting a lie, less is more.
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.
Robots must identify themselves.
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“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
When someone attempts to make you afraid of something that hasn't happened instead of a true, present danger, suspect this nefarious ploy.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer's block?
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist's crystal ball.
The danger posed by conversational AI isn't that it can say weird or dark things; it's personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.