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Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us - David Gelernter
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AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
There are high hopes that artificial intelligence (AI) can help tackle some of the world’s biggest environmental emergencies. Among other things, the technology is already being used to map the destructive dredging of sand and chart emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But when it comes to the environment, there is a negative side to the explosion of AI and its associated infrastructure, according to a growing body of research. The proliferating data centres that house AI servers produce electronic waste. They are large consumers of water, which is becoming scarce in many places. They rely on critical minerals and rare elements, which are often mined unsustainably. And they use…
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AI—The good, the bad, and the scary
There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence has changed our lives. However, some might argue if it’s for the better.
Articles of Interest
AI could be a disaster for humanity. A top computer scientist thinks he has the solution
Humans care about a lot of things: fairness, law, democratic input, our safety and flourishing, our freedom. AI systems, Russell argues in Human Compatible, care about only whatever we’ve put in as their objective. And that means there’s a disaster on the horizon.
Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Change Your Life
The revolution began before you even realized it.
How worried should we be about artificial intelligence? I asked 17 experts.
“We should take seriously the possibility that things could go radically wrong.”
Watch This AI Baby in Action
BabyX is an experimental computer generated psychobiological simulation of an infant which learns and interacts in real time. BabyX integrates realistic facial simulation with computational neuroscience models of neural systems involved in interactive behaviour and learning.
Am I Bot or Not?
It will become harder and harder to identify automata, and I do not mean crazy-eyed dolls or local Google specialists.
Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day
Known only as Baby X, this 3D-simulated human child is getting smarter every day.
China's Big AI Advantage: Humans
In the booming field of artificial intelligence, cheap labor to process data may be the only edge China has over the U.S.
How AI Will Redefine Human Intelligence
Machines aren’t just infiltrating the human world, they’re altering our perception of what people can do.
Machines That Will Think and Feel
Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us.
Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices
The science behind making machines talk just like humans is very complex, because our speech patterns are so nuanced.
The Bot Decade: How AI Took Over Our Lives in the 2010s
Humans and tech have always coexisted and coevolved, but this decade brought us closer together—and closer to the future—than ever. These days, you don’t have to be an engineer to participate in AI projects; in fact, you have no choice but to help, as you’re constantly offering your digital behavior to train AIs.
The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future
Many of the tech industry’s biggest companies, like Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, are jockeying to become the go-to company for A.I. In the industry’s lingo, the companies are engaged in a “platform war.”
The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check?
With his company DeepMind, Londoner Demis Hassabis is leading Google’s project to build software more powerful than the human brain. But what will this mean for the future of humankind?
The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI
The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. This common utility will serve you as much IQ as you want but no more than you need. Like all utilities, AI will be supremely boring, even as it transforms the Internet, the global economy, and civilization. It will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century ago. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now cognitize. This new utilitarian AI will also augment us individually as people (deepening our memory, speeding our recognition) and collectively as a species.
We must regulate AI now to improve our lives and avoid its risks
DONE wisely, artificial intelligence “can be the best thing ever for humanity”, says the fundamental physicist turned AI researcher Max Tegmark in our interview this week (see “If we do it wisely, AI can be the best thing ever for humanity”). We subscribe wholeheartedly to his assessment. Seldom has there been a technology with such an obvious power to improve our lot – or one with such obvious dangers.
Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI's Problems
Google hired Gebru in 2018 to help ensure that its AI products did not perpetuate racism or other societal inequalities. In her role, Gebru hired prominent researchers of color, published several papers that highlighted biases and ethical risks, and spoke at conferences.
Why You Should Legit Worry About Google's Latest Achievement
It's not all fun and games.
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DeepMind
We joined forces with Google in order to turbo-charge our mission. The algorithms we build are capable of learning for themselves directly from raw experience or data, and are general in that they can perform well across a wide variety of tasks straight out of the box.
BabyX
BabyX is an interactive animated virtual infant prototype. BabyX is a computer generated psychobiological simulation under development in the Laboratory of Animate Technologies and is an experimental vehicle incorporating computational models of basic neural systems involved in interactive behaviour and learning.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.
Auckland Bioengineering Institute
The Laboratory for Animate Technologies is creating ‘live’ computational models of the face and brain by combining Bioengineering, Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Computer Graphics Research. We are developing multidisciplinary technologies to create interactive autonomously animated systems which will define the next generation of human computer interaction and facial animation.
TED
Computers are being taught to learn, reason and recognize emotions. In these talks, look for insights -- as well as warnings.
The Guardian
Keeps up with AI worldwide.
Wired
Latest AI news.
