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Blaise Aguera y Arcas

1011 theses on the concept of nonhuman intelligence

When Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz discovered binary, he was ecstatic. In a letter to the Duke of Brunswick, he sketched his famous medallion…

11 min readSep 19, 2022

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1011 theses on the concept of nonhuman intelligence

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Can machines learn how to behave?

Beyond the current news cycle about whether AIs are sentient is a more practical and immediately consequential conversation about AI value…

64 min readAug 3, 2022

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Carving of three monkeys, one covering its ears, one covering its eyes, and one covering its mouth

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Ubi Sunt: Watchmaker’s Notes

Ubi Sunt is an unconventional novella I wrote in early 2021. I’m a VP and Fellow at Google Research leading a team working on AI. While…

15 min readJul 30, 2022

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The Monteverde Angel, Oneto Tomb, Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, Genoa

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Do large language models understand us?

LLMs have a great deal to teach us about the nature of language, understanding, intelligence, sociality, and personhood.

37 min readDec 16, 2021

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Do algorithms reveal sexual orientation or just expose our stereotypes?

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Alexander Todorov and Margaret Mitchell

15 min readJan 11, 2018

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Physiognomy’s New Clothes

by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell and Alexander Todorov

38 min readMay 7, 2017

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Artists + Machine Intelligence

What is AMI?

What do art and technology have to do with each other? What is machine intelligence, and what does “machine intelligence art” look, sound…

2 min readFeb 23, 2016

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What is AMI?

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Artists + Machine Intelligence

Art in the Age of Machine Intelligence

Art has always existed in a complex, symbiotic and continually evolving relationship with the technological capabilities of a culture…

16 min readFeb 23, 2016

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Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads Google’s AI group in Seattle. He founded Seadragon, and was one of the creators of Photosynth at Microsoft.

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