Conditions on StarCraft Supremacy and fair play for AILast week, DeepMind presented a series of high level StarCraft II games from its deep learning agent AlphaStar playing against human…Jan 31, 2019Jan 31, 2019
Major positions on Conscious AI SystemsGoing through the AAAI Spring Symposium papers on Conscious AI Systems, I find three major views being defended in the literature. I put…Jan 9, 2019A response icon1Jan 9, 2019A response icon1
Hi friends. Let’s talk about the IPCC report.The latest IPCC report has generated a lot of scary news. NY Mag gave its readership “permission to freak out”. We all know our situation…Oct 18, 2018A response icon2Oct 18, 2018A response icon2
Sophia and her criticsThe ethics of human likeness — Part 1Jun 18, 2018A response icon7Jun 18, 2018A response icon7
Extinction engineeringA recent article in Technology Review discusses the application of CRISPR technologies to the problem of malaria. The goal is to eradicate…Apr 19, 2018Apr 19, 2018
Of tirades and tyrants“There are no tyrants where there are no slaves.” — José RizalOct 25, 2017A response icon2Oct 25, 2017A response icon2
Published inHackerNoon.comThe bot they told you not to worry aboutEarly last week, Elon Musk reiterated claims that “AI is a fundamental risk to humanity”, and for the first time Mark Zuckerberg weighed…Aug 2, 2017A response icon4Aug 2, 2017A response icon4
A heap of unrelated articles may not deserve rights. But robots do.An excellent recent episode of John Danaher’s podcast interviews Joanna Bryson, author of the infamous “Robots should be slaves” article…Jun 10, 2017A response icon1Jun 10, 2017A response icon1
The Sunshine War// Before I go on: I don’t know anything about money, finances, or the economy. Never take any financial advice from me. Ever.Jun 7, 2017A response icon2Jun 7, 2017A response icon2
Facebook can’t fix the problem, it is the problem.A recent article in Tech Crunch identifies a number of ways Facebook is broken. Here’s a list of problems mentioned:Jun 7, 2017A response icon1Jun 7, 2017A response icon1
