Laws, regulators, governments and who is actually in charge of AI.
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The Trump Silver Lining Exercise
Exercise: enter a contemplative state. Consider the last two years of Trump as President, as objectively as possible. Good luck. Now think of Obama’s terms. Now Bush. Clinton. Stretch back…
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grassmuscle
Back in 2012 I ran a project to try and give people a grassroots way to get their message out and allow for the crowd to help micro-funding messages…
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Disclaim the Bots
I would never seriously propose a law. Only lawyers are allowed to do that from my understanding. Nor do I believe the idea I am proposing below should become an…
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Debate This
AI debate program narrowly loses to the best debater. In a way, Debater follows IBM’s philosophy of constructing a man plus machine future, one in which AI augments and supports…
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Don’t Win; Do Good
In software engineering, and most business-flannel-collar industries, there are a whole lot of people pretending they are able to model supremely complicated systems in their brains accurately. And they live…
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The Pointlessness of Caring About Hypocrisy
From every corner of the political heatmap, I have heard the same thing for four decades: “How can you agree with X if you also believe Y. How can you…
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Insipid Weapons
The Washington Post: The Kalashnikov assault rifle changed the world. Now there’s a Kalashnikov kamikaze drone: ABU DHABI — The Russian company that gave the world the iconic AK-47 assault…
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De-skilling the Future
A reader writes: So can automation cause de-skilling to handle complex situation? If routine problems are dealt with by the algorithm then how do humans develop the skills to handle…
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Of Luddites, Bots, and the FTC
A Luddite is not anti technology. They are anti fraud. The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization[1] of English textile workers in the 19th century, where a radical faction destroyed…
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AI is a Road
AI isn’t a being. It’s a road. I have spoken of the confusion about robots and AI before. Because people believe that we are on the cusp of making new…
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AlphaStar; AlphaYou
It’s about the object of the game. “Mark it, dude”, this was the week that AI ran out of games to play. AlphaStar from the Google Deepmind team has been…
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Why Self Driving Cars Will Fail
If you want the technical reasons why self driving cars will have practically insurmountable difficulties in the real world, I would recommend Artificial Unintellgence by Meredith Broussard. Excellent resource. But…