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After Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, was killed driving a Tesla Model S in the first fatality involving a self-driving car, questions have arisen about the safety of the car’s technology.
And here we are: the first recorded fatal accident in a self-driving car.
Surveys show that people generally believe autonomous vehicles should make an emergency decision for the greatest good — except if it might kill them.
Driverless car ethics, continued. I’m glad we’re all so concerned. Get back to me when you’ve solved the full-on trolley problem.
The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million AI and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. This prize will focus on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines. The solutions will contribute to the enrichment of available tools and data sets for the usage of innovators everywhere. The goal is also to accelerate the understanding and adoption of AI’s most promising breakthroughs.
Hey hey, let’s play. Call for collaborative teams.
SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot that weighs 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics)...
Robot dogs, definitely coming along. Servant or companion...you decide.
Eukaryotic DNA is strongly bent inside fundamental packaging units: the nucleosomes. It is known that their positions are strongly influenced by the mechanical properties of the underlying DNA sequence. Here we discuss the possibility that these mechanical properties and the concomitant nucleosome positions are not just a side product of the given DNA sequence, e.g. that of the genes, but that a mechanical evolution of DNA molecules might have taken place. We first demonstrate the possibility of multiplexing classical and mechanical genetic information using a computational nucleosome model. In a second step we give evidence for genome-wide multiplexing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosacharomyces pombe . This suggests that the exact positions of nucleosomes play crucial roles in chromatin function.
tl/dr: It’s all about the packaging ;)
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
This is an excellent survey/overview of how your brain works served up with a delicious plate of how your brain does not work, which is reason enough to post it up, but also, it’s here because it was referenced in this morning’s earlier post about Elon Musk.
The visionary entrepreneur believes we're all living in a version of the Matrix. This is very silly — and revealing.
Oh, where to start? For one thing, if you’d seen what I’d seen in the past 6 months you would not be super worried about the Singularity bursting into your living room and owning all your base anytime soon. Second of all, as the author repeatedly states: brains and computers have some similarities, sure, but they are far outstripped by the many differences, most of which are so far not replicable by machine learning or machine behavior. Third of all, there’s this thing that happens when you get Shiny and Flavorized for a time - and it’s not just entertainers or sports stars or scientists, it’s obviously an equal opportunity delusion that effects business people as well: you start to seriously believe your own bullshit. In fact, you believe in the bullshit of your own bullshit - how much shit could bullshit shit if bullshit could shit shit, I ask you? I realize this is a less fun than the whole “we’re living in the Matrix!” thing and I get where that excitement comes from, I do, but you know what?
That’s what I thought.
Big tech players' AI APIs will have a huge effect on IT
Open toolkit, open doors!
How to build a better kill switch
In short, safe interruptibility means you build a kill switch that isn’t likely to be disabled by the agent you built it to control. Been hearing a lot about a ‘big red button’ in AI news this week? Here’s the paper that launched a thousand articles.
Artist and researcher Terence Broad is working on his master’s at Goldsmith’s computing department; his dissertation involved training neural networks to “autoencode” movies…
Permission or forgiveness, a classic conundrum (or not, really - there’s only one good answer and if you’re asking yourself the question, you already know what it is). Anyway, new mediums, new permissions problems.
Artificial intelligence can find subtle changes, like new roads, that indicate when deforestation is imminent so it can be stopped before it happens.
In March of this year, David Hanson of Hanson Robotics spoke on the subject of genius machines on a panel at SxSW Interactive. HR’s android Sophia gave a brief prepared speech wherein she mentioned that genius machines could potentially pre-anticipate and help solve problems before humans even realized there was a problem to be solved. She might have been talking about something like this.
With huge leaps taking place in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), right now, experts have started asking questions about the new forms of protection we might need against the formidable smarts and potential dangers of computers and robots...
We’re years out, but anything that gets us away from the idea that AI is simply a tool for human use forever and always is a good thing.
Apple supplier Foxconn and other Taiwanese manufacturers with bases in China have started to replace humans with robots.
"Roughly 600 companies in the Kunshan region are reportedly looking to reduce headcount with robots, as part of an effort to accelerate growth and reduce costs, according to the South China Morning Post SCMP, which cited data from the Kunshan government. Last year, 35 Taiwanese companies, including Foxconn, spent a total of 4 billion yuan ($610 million) on artificial intelligence as part of this initiative, according to the report." VS
“Apple supplier says automation has freed up its employees for higher value-added roles, such as in R&D” So are we replacing workers, or are moving ‘em on up? All of them?
Use this framework to know when to hand over control.
Yep.
Scientists have been able to get an AI system to replicate an experiment that led to the creation of an ultracold state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate.
So in this case, an algorithm built (by humans) is capable of making choices that those humans would not have considered when it comes to setting the test parameters used for the experiment. And *that* is very promising when we think in terms of truly strong AI. “To the researchers' surprise, the algorithm, which was not programmed to have any prior knowledge of the process, not only learnt to perform the experiment successfully in less than an hour, it — as AI systems are wont to do — did so using techniques humans couldn't possibly have thought of. “
Watching the Watchers
So here we have 7 examples of ways to cover the same story. As posted yesterday, Google has been scraping romance novels and using that text to generate ‘poetry’, or writing in a poetic form, anyway. Note the emotional language used to describe said effort:
Mournful, dramatic, creepy (x 2), haunting, and miserable.
The poetry itself is a bit bland. But the projection? All too human, I’m afraid. Is it threatening to think that art is not an exclusively human province? Guess it depends what you think art is, or poetry is, and what it should be, and why. I personally think the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, along with quite a bit of gibberish. Wisdom is knowing the difference.
- clk
Google's AI has written some amazingly mournful poetry Wired.co.uk - 7 hours ago To help solve the problem, Google has been feeding it's AI with more than 11,000 unpublished books...
Google has AI writing 'rather dramatic' fiction as it learns to speak naturally The Verge - 20 hours ago Google is training AI to speak more naturally, and the early results are pretty entertaining...
Google has trained its AI to write creepy short stories Business Insider UK - 7 hours ago In order to teach its AI how to come up with new sentences...
Inspired by erotic fiction, Google's AI bot is producing some creepy poetry NEWS.com.au - 15 hours ago One of the great challengers for AI developers is to create a bot with colloquial skills that can adapt to, and mimic, the different ways humans converse...
Artificial Intelligence News & Update: Google's AI Can Now Write Haunting Poetry Parent Herald - 9 hours ago Although the AI had precise grammar, the Google Brain Team wanted it to be more conversational in its interactions...
Google's artificial intelligence writes miserable poetry Telegraph.co.uk - 3 hours ago ... Showcasing how it is just as capable of conjuring up bleak imagery as humans, the AI penned a series of dreary poems...
Google using romance novels to train its artificial intelligence to write fiction Mashable - 13 hours ago Google is using romance novels to teach its artificial intelligence (AI) system to better understand how people communicate...
A remarkable machine-learning trick that cleans up pixelated videos and photographs can automatically generate high-quality computer-game graphics.
Training AI to model visual information.