A great deal of what Artificial Intelligence can do right now is accomplished in a vastly different way from the one used for that same task in the human brain. Deep-Learning, while it has brought great advances to AI, is still very different from the way a brain learns. A discussion of this issue can… Continue reading AI and Brain Research
Thank you, Paul Lindsay, for sharing this article with me. I am adding it to our Resources page. The article by Fei-Fei Li raises questions about the rapidly developing field of AI and proposes three goals for making Artificial Intelligence human-centered. First, A.I. needs to reflect more of the depth that characterizes our own intelligence.… Continue reading NY Times article: “How to Make A.I. That’s Good for People”
The New York Times published an article yesterday entitled “The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It?” The inventors of this autonomous (read, AI driven) drone present it as a recreational device, but the technology could clearly be used with much less benign goals. The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society… Continue reading Autonomous Selfie Drone?
I would like to thank Bob Winstead for a great job leading our discussion of Asimov’s three laws of robotics and the complications with trying to implement them in the real world.
You can find several resources on this topic on the web, but I’ll include only one here. If you would like something to read to follow up on this morning’s discussion, you can try this for starters.
In his 1942 short story “Runaround” (also included in the collection I, Robot eight years later), Isaac Asimov introduced his three laws of robotics, although he had foreshadowed them in a few earlier stories. Here are the three laws: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to… Continue reading Sunday, February 11, 2018 Bob Winstead
I have added a new section, Automation, Robotics, and Education, to the Articles and Blogs page. The new section currently contains six articles related to the adoption of robotics and artificial intelligence in the classroom. I hope you find these resources useful.
Many are sounding the alarm about a technology whose necessary components are already available and that could be used in terrifying ways at very little expense. The following video was produced to promote discussion on this issue. It contains upsetting violent imagery, so viewer discretion is advised. Stuart Russell, Anthony Aguirre, Ariel Conn and Max… Continue reading Autonomous Weapons?
On January 10, The Guardian’s Science Weekly released it’s second installment in the “Questioning A.I” series: What Kind of Intelligence will we create? People often express worries about “human-level” Artificial Intelligence, with some predicting it will be here in only a couple of decades with others saying it may never happen. But in this episode Ian… Continue reading Questioning A.I.
