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Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›
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Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›
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Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?

Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case. Read More ›
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Cell Vesicles Wear Sophisticated Coats, Defying Unguided Evolutionary Explanations

These coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, exhibit irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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Will AI “Own the World”? Robert J. Marks Talks with Laura Ingraham

In response to those who believe AI will take over the world, Marks says, "Look at history." Read More ›
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Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI

It would be interesting to see what fully automated driving would look like in a place like Moldova. Read More ›
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Origin Stories — RNA, DNA, and a Dose of Imagination

Forever lacking are the key elements required for life: coordinated activity, coherent function, regulated control, meaningful information, purposeful intent. Read More ›
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Hype and Fearmongering About Artificial Intelligence Passes Its Sell-By Date

The attribution of superpowers to coming generations of AI machines has entered self-parody territory. Read More ›

Spot the Problems in This Story

On an alien planet, as astronaut discovers cars that conceive, gestate, and give birth to smaller cars. Read More ›
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An electric trolley along Canal Street in new Orleans Louisiana , march of 2018
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Morality Problem

The Moral Machine is an interactive version of the Trolley Problem. Read More ›

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