Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence

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Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
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In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
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Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
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While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
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Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
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8mins
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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5mins
“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”
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The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn't if it's going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
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To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
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Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
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Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?