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Entrepreneurial Hubris in Silicon Valley

Post author By G
Post date Jan 19, 2019
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It is a gargantuan investment and leap of faith to assert, predict or seek to influence technological trajectories over a time scale of centuries.

Tags AI, art, autonomous, business, economy, entrepreneur, Futurism, Masayoshi Son, money, pride, Softbank, systems

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Information Conflict may overwhelm us

Post author By G
Post date Jan 19, 2019
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When information and communications systems become massively autonomous, will we be able to react to the unfolding events in any competitive information and communications space?

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, autonomous, conflict, evolution, human in the loop, information warfare, nation states, systems, war

technology

Will Artificial General Intelligence farm our minds ?

Post author By G
Post date Nov 11, 2018
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Most narratives of post-AI apocalypse fail to acknowledge that whatever it is that is going on between all of our ears might actually represent a resource or asset of study and creative experimentation for an artificial superintelligence.

Tags AGI, AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Complexity, creativity, dynamical, emergence, eschatology, Futurism, non-linear, singularity, superintelligence

technology

Will Technology make us Stupid ?

Post author By G
Post date Oct 22, 2018
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Will technology make us stupid ? Or is there more creative and innovative opportunity than ever before to be derived from our tools of cognitive extension ?

Tags AI, Artificial Intelligence, cognition, disruption, health, innovation, intelligence, material, mental, technology, tool

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Artificial Intelligence: Simulating a “Theory of Mind”

Post author By G
Post date Jul 29, 2018
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What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?

Tags AGI, AI, algorithm, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, circularity, insight, Intuition, logic, Machine Learning, other, reference, self, Theory of Mind, uncertainty

Artificially Intelligent

AI are really just sophisticated computational tools and technologies, not the oft-hyped and promoted “intelligence” they are misrepresented as.

Tags AGI, AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, technology

culture

Data Exploitation: Information-Shaping and A.I.

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Post date Mar 31, 2018
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Successful perception-manipulation through information-mediated reinforcement requires an intuitive comprehension and insight into a cultural, historical “moment”…

Tags AI, art, Artificial Intelligence, data, exploitation, information, manipulation, media, zeitgeist

culture

Relative Intelligence

I’m not entirely confident in the marketing, PR and hype surrounding the notional “Intelligence” characterised in emerging contemporary applications and technologies. The kinds of sophistication and mental processing (on a spectrum towards consciousness and self-awareness) constitutive of authentic intelligence appears to be anything other than what is being achieved by these narrowly defined intelligent machines […]