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The Singularity

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/feb/28/are-we-already-living-in-the-technological-singularity   A time in which scientific progress engenders a new race of beings that outpaces humans intellectually is completely realistic and conceivable for the future.  The projected rate of scientific progress is an exponential graph; the dramatic up-shoot in … Continue reading

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AI and the Democratization of Financial Info

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/09/neokamis-artificial-intelligence-app-wants-to-make-you-a-top-stock-picker.html   Although I do think we need to be careful as a society in developing artificial intelligence—and be wary of our heavy reliance on technology—I do think that the current benefits of artificial intelligence can actually make our society … Continue reading

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

For some reason, most people are under the impression that if the singularity were ever to occur, we’d have some reaction time to pull the plug while the sentient computer was sharing its master plan with us, just like a … Continue reading

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Emergence – Moving Beyond Humanity

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCYQFjABahUKEwih6IiptunIAhXHPCYKHfKdAeU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEx_Machina_(film)&usg=AFQjCNF4bPonuIgI9GFqMqOk24Wj75bjng&sig2=GTcOn5ZvHdnP6SMltTjHZw The denouement of the recently released film Ex Machina (SPOILERS) involves an Artificial Intelligence acquiring a physical body, in exteriority similar to that of a human, and manipulating the human characters in order to escape from its confined existence and … Continue reading

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Reality of Self-Driving Cars

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-google-self-driving-car-accident-20150716-story.html   In this article, an accident between a car with a person behind the wheel and a car with no person directing the car (but with three people inside) was described. The accident was evidently fault of the human … Continue reading

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Infinite Possibilities with Technology

http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/the-technological-singularity-and-merging-with-machines The article that I read in preparation for Wednesday’s discussion was titled “Technological Singularity and Merging with Machines,” in which author Michio Kaku talks about what this term means exactly in the context of our future.  Kaku begins by … Continue reading

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Singularity is the Future

The most interesting part in my opinion of the idea of singularity, is that once we are able to create AI more advanced than the human brain, that it will jumpstart an infinite cycle of rapid advancements. Think about it…once … Continue reading

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Watson

Although we speak of the singularity as a science fiction idea or as a possibility for the future, the emergence of strong AI can already be seen today. IBM has been known to be on the forefront of the development … Continue reading

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Singularity contextualization

http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-proposed-ban-on-offensive-autonomous-weapons-is-unrealistic-and-dangerous I actually found an article that ties into both aspects of the discussion we held on Wednesday, in which Kuzweil responds to the proposed AI treaty that we read. He implores that banning research into ai weaponry is foolish, … Continue reading

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Skeptical about Singularity

After watching Ray Kurzweil’s video on singularity, I had no doubt that at some point our intelligence will be so high that we will be able to take objects such as a rock and make them useful technologically, but I … Continue reading

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