Singularity Summit 2014: Embrace Tomorrow, Launch Today
In the two days of Singularity University’s Summit Europe 2014, taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands this November 19-20, participants will have a chance to meet the future face to face. In...
View ArticleIs Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Humanity?
Most of the world’s news agencies shared Stephen Hawking‘s recent warning, from an interview with the BBC, about the threat that Artificial Intelligence(AI) poses to humanity. As it may sound...
View ArticleAI: Machines Trained to Learn
In an article published yesterday in The New York Times, John Markoff writes about newest achievements in the development of artificial intelligence software carried out by two independent teams of...
View ArticleRobot with Artificial Intelligence Really Exists
Elon Musk, founder and a co-founder of companies such as SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity, and Stephen Hawking, scientific icon, recently drew attention of the public to the Artificial Intelligence...
View ArticleOvercoming the Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, founder of the Singularity University, and a renowned author, famous for his optimistic outlooks on future, recently wrote a piece for Time Magazine...
View ArticleOpen Letter on AI issued by the Future of Life Institute
Experts around the world are signing an open letter (here) which addresses the future of artificial intelligence. It is titled Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Deep Learning Surpasses Humans and Google’s GoogLeNet
AI may become a driving force of our whole civilization, quietly running processes behind everything we do. A group of researchers at Microsoft Research branch in Asia published an academic paper on...
View ArticleFacebook Has a New Test for Artificial Intelligence
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician whose codebreaking machine helped save millions of lives in the Second World War. The Turing machine is regarded as the world’s first model of a computer, and...
View ArticleMovie Reviews: Ex Machina vs. The Machine
Two transhumanist films with — at first glance — similar plots and themes made their appearance in the last year, The Machine (2014) and Ex Machina (2015). Both films are British, lower budget (more on...
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