Summary: Finally the AI revolution and the coming great extinction of jobs has become visible to almost everyone. Only its timing remains unknown. New research shows experts’ forecasts of AI’s growing skills, valuable information that will help us prepare. Let’s use it! “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts.” By Katja Grace …
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Summary: Artificial intelligence has arrived. The mid-twentieth century horse apocalypse shows us what it might do to employment. It is history’s rebuttal to the pollyannas about tech. This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post — Films show us how smart machines will reshape the world. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short …
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Summary: Artificial intelligence has arrived, beginning to reshape the world. Here is what we can learn about it from films. Tomorrow we’ll see lessons about AI from the horse apocalypse. Spoilers! “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” — Attributed to Roy …
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Summary: This post describes three lessons from Ashley Madison that are dark and so seldom mentioned by our clickbait media. Contents Millions of women used Ashley Madison. We become criminals for a good paycheck. Bots can easily become good enough for men. For More Information. The story of the rise and fall of the Ashley …
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Summary: The debate about building AIs tends to ignore a key factor. If computers become sentient, constraining them to serve us — and even having our emotions and values — is slavery. Not only is this ethically dubious, they might not like it. They could revolt and pursue their own destiny. We can turn to …
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