AI - Singularity - Google - et al

[Darth Biscuit]

Have we had a thread about AI and the singularity around these parts?

 

We should.

 

Here's an article about Google teaming up with Deep Mind to develop a "fool proof" off switch for AI.  Ha.

 

http://gizmodo.com/google-doesnt-want-to-accidentally-make-skynet-so-its-1780317950

 

 

I, for one, welcome our machine overlords...  

[Zaximus]

Yeah I've accepted the fact that eventually they'll take over.

[arbnranger]

AI is likely to be ‘either the best or worst thing ever to happen to humanity,’ Hawking said, ‘so there's huge value in getting it right’

Interesting article-

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stephen-hawking-artificial-intelligence-could-wipe-out-humanity-when-it-gets-too-clever-as-humans-a6686496.html

[Inimicus]

This is a really nice essay on AI and how the evolution of Super Intelligence could either bring about our immortality or or extinction.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

[Darth Biscuit]

I read both of those last year at some point... excellent.