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I'll just leave this right here. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/norbert-wiener-the-eccentric-genius-whose-time-may-have-finally-come-again/372607/

The joke that writes itself. https://qz.com/1154491/us-congress-is-trying-to-define-what-artificial-intelligence-actually-means

I'm on record many times asserting that AI is as alien to us as cephalopods, cetaceans, avians or even other primates. AI experiences the world differently than we do. It also responds to it differently than we do. Our interactions with AI are our "first contact" with a truly alien intelligence. http://www.the-vital-edge.com/alien-machine-intelligence/

The future does not care if you look to it with hope or fear. It is coming. The future is unstoppable. Originally shared by DARPA In a piece she wrote for WIRED UK prior to leaving the Agency, former DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar explores the marvels becoming possible as humans and machines work in an increasingly intertwined fashion, and explores what this fusion might mean in the future. http://www.wired.co.uk/article/darpa-arati-prabhakar-humans-machines

What is the more imminent threat: - That a robot army will rise up to destroy us? - That we rely upon AI so thoroughly that we can no longer function as individuals without it? http://m.nautil.us/blog/will-ai-harm-us-better-to-ask-how-well-reckon-with-our-hybrid-nature

A Detection Algorithm​​'s cousin is hard at work It’s evident that the Artificial Intelligence is learning to be Creative Intelligence. In all seriousness, I'm amazed that Watson can detect mood changes and had shown that it can understand changes in emotion even if it doesn't understand the emotions themselves. But I'm disappointed that we get yet another cookie cutter, unimaginative story about an AI run amok. Originally shared by Ganesh Dragon They are gonna entertain us..... http://curiouspost.com/ibms-supercomputer-watson-created-a-horror-movie-trailer-all-by-itself/

Yonatan Zunger​ has posted an interesting discussion of how Judaism and Islam might view the creation of a "Strong AI". You might not be surprised by the how each of these two faiths would answer the question, but you might be surprised why. Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger Artificial Intelligence, Talmud, and Sharia: a post which will be of interest to a fairly specific set of geeks. My threads often turn into lengthy discussions of how Jewish law intersects with various things. Kashrut and cannibalism seem to come up as a pair weirdly often, which may say something about my readers. But now I'm pondering a question about AI and the Islamic prohibition on statues. Question: Is work on the strong AI problem – making a human-like intelligence – forbidden or encouraged under various religious laws? In Islam, the dominant question seems to come from the rules about making images. These may seem to be irrelevant, since the word "statue" appears only twice in th...

The Antikythera Mechanism yields more secrets. https://theconversation.com/what-the-worlds-oldest-calculator-tells-us-about-the-ancient-greeks-view-of-the-universe-62234

How did you get that answer, A Detection Algorithm​? http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12158238/first-click-deep-learning-algorithmic-black-boxes

A Detection Algorithm​ hits the road! Originally shared by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation What’s next for autonomous car technology? Here’s 10 opportunities ahead for neural-net-based ADAS systems http://buff.ly/293Srku

A Detection Algorithm​'s nieces and nephews are exploring creativity. Originally shared by MATLAB Incredible! These machine learning + computer vision algorithms can analyze art, including measuring creativity and determining artistic influence http://ow.ly/Eadk301PYO1 http://ow.ly/tt3t301PWqk

Another step in the inevitable merging of humans and machines. A quadriplegic used a brain-computer interface to move, not a robotic hand, his own hand . http://blogs.mathworks.com/headlines/2016/04/20/neuroscience-and-machine-learning-restore-movement-in-paralyzed-mans-hand/

This AI beats Top Gun. http://m.phys.org/news/2016-06-video-games-artificial-intelligence-tactical.html

Robots can stop what they're doing and go over to assist another robot which has asked for help," Dimarogonas says. "This will mean flexible and dynamic robots that act much more like humans That depends on the human. I've seen too many humans respond to a request for help by: • Pretending not to notice • Actively declining to help. (Sometimes with a digital gesture. ) • Making things more difficult. Before we make robots that behave more like humans let's stop and think about what we're thinking about. Originally shared by ScienceDaily http://dlvr.it/Lg5hnS

The most disruptive technology ever. I can't help thinking that if we ever become capable of building a human level AI, we probably won't need it. http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-1465827619

The fusion of biology and technology is coming. Will we be superhuman or Borg? Originally shared by DARPA From microsystems to optogenetics to organs on chips, DARPA is invested in many of the technologies that stand to improve lives in the coming years. http://www.scientificamerican.com/report/the-top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2016

Before we can put our values into machines, we have to figure out how to make our values clear and consistent. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/technology/should-your-driverless-car-hit-a-pedestrian-to-save-your-life.html

You can't hold it back or wish it away. You can't run from it or fight it. AI is the future. Will there be a place for you in it? Originally shared by Erik Jonker Human work in the Robotic future Nice contribution by Foreign Affairs to the discussion about the coming age of AI, Robotics and the challenges it brings. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-06-13/human-work-robotic-future

Electricity! Biology! Seems to me it's Chemistry! - Neil Peart In part 5 of "Genius" Stephen Hawking explains self-organizing molecules and how we could become what we are without a divinity and having "no ghost in the machine." http://www.pbs.org/video/2365763823 http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/how-consciousness-evolved/485558/

According to Buddhist teachings, all life is equally worthy of care, regardless of species, and regardless of whether or not it is artificial: “From a Buddhist view of the mind and consciousness, all intelligence is artificial,” Originally shared by PBS If a bot can think, can it believe? Explore this theological guide to chatbots and the world's major religions. #HowWeGotToNowPBS http://to.pbs.org/25R2zp7