The errors, insights and lessons of famous AI predictions
... useful falsifiable prediction, not to weaken or strengthen a reviled or favoured argument. The very first stratagems in Schopenhauer’s “The Art of Always being Right” [Sch31] are to extend and over-generalise the consequences of ones opponent’s argument; conversely, one should reduce and narrow down ...
... useful falsifiable prediction, not to weaken or strengthen a reviled or favoured argument. The very first stratagems in Schopenhauer’s “The Art of Always being Right” [Sch31] are to extend and over-generalise the consequences of ones opponent’s argument; conversely, one should reduce and narrow down ...
September 11, 2012 - University of Alberta
... In Erewhon (1872) Butler argued that: “There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness now. A mollusc has not much consciousness. Reflect upon the extraordinary advance which machines have made during the last ...
... In Erewhon (1872) Butler argued that: “There is no security against the ultimate development of mechanical consciousness, in the fact of machines possessing little consciousness now. A mollusc has not much consciousness. Reflect upon the extraordinary advance which machines have made during the last ...
JKB_Paper2_Technological Singularity
... continuing exponential growth in the change of technology. The exponential change in technology is predicted by Kurzweil in his analysis “The Law of Accelerating Returns” (Allen). It seems that the skeptics back their evidence with scientific reasoning as opposed to than with the individuals who pre ...
... continuing exponential growth in the change of technology. The exponential change in technology is predicted by Kurzweil in his analysis “The Law of Accelerating Returns” (Allen). It seems that the skeptics back their evidence with scientific reasoning as opposed to than with the individuals who pre ...
Representation of Musical Information
... • Nearly always, all you can say is “an X has characteristic A, and usually also B, C, D…” • Leads to: – People who know better claiming absolute correlations ...
... • Nearly always, all you can say is “an X has characteristic A, and usually also B, C, D…” • Leads to: – People who know better claiming absolute correlations ...
III. Symbolic AI as a Degenerating Research Program
... live forever as algorithms inside the global brain. In the technological the world envisaged by Kurzweil and the Singularians [C]omputers [will] become so powerful that they can model human consciousness. permit us to download our personalities into nonbiological substrates. this…bridge, we become i ...
... live forever as algorithms inside the global brain. In the technological the world envisaged by Kurzweil and the Singularians [C]omputers [will] become so powerful that they can model human consciousness. permit us to download our personalities into nonbiological substrates. this…bridge, we become i ...
Marshall, J.
... ics, encompasses a remarkably diverse range of topics in science and technology. This seemed to me like the ideal subject matter for a course aimed at liberal arts students that would introduce them to AI from a much wider perspective than is normally possible in a typical AI survey course. I decid ...
... ics, encompasses a remarkably diverse range of topics in science and technology. This seemed to me like the ideal subject matter for a course aimed at liberal arts students that would introduce them to AI from a much wider perspective than is normally possible in a typical AI survey course. I decid ...
The Inevitability of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
... on these machines for augmentation of their human abilities, such as amplifying their strength, speed, dexterity, intelligence, memory, longevity, and so forth. – It could come to the point, eventually, that augmentation leads to humans transferring their identities ― their personalities and knowled ...
... on these machines for augmentation of their human abilities, such as amplifying their strength, speed, dexterity, intelligence, memory, longevity, and so forth. – It could come to the point, eventually, that augmentation leads to humans transferring their identities ― their personalities and knowled ...
Brains - Minnesota Futurists
... E.g.: In 1977, Marvin Minsky, A founding father of modern AI, said that general artificial intelligence at or above human level (aka strong AI) would be achieved within a generation. ...
... E.g.: In 1977, Marvin Minsky, A founding father of modern AI, said that general artificial intelligence at or above human level (aka strong AI) would be achieved within a generation. ...
Ray Kurzweil
Raymond ""Ray"" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurology, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first charge-coupled device flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first commercial text-to-speech synthesizer, the Kurzweil K250 music synthesizer capable of simulating the sound of the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States' highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001, the world's largest for innovation. And in 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He has received twenty honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has been described as a ""restless genius"" by The Wall Street Journal and ""the ultimate thinking machine"" by Forbes. PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 ""revolutionaries who made America"" along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among the ""most fascinating"" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him ""Edison's rightful heir"".Kurzweil has authored seven books, five of which have been national bestsellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best-selling book on Amazon in science. Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near was a New York Times bestseller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. Kurzweil speaks widely to audiences public and private and regularly delivers keynote speeches at industry conferences like DEMO, SXSW and TED. He maintains the news website KurzweilAI.net, which has over three million readers annually.