The promise of a Machine Intelligence future The glass is half full or the glass is half empty. As intelligent creatures, we can sometimes decide how we want to approach a subject — from a worldview of pessimism or optimism. …

In certain communities of AI development there has been a lot of talk regarding safety, and how to prevent a machine whose only job is to do what we tell it, from taking the most efficient route and possibly killing us in the process. This goes well beyond the theatrical…

Change. Sometimes we want change, and sometimes we don’t. Things are always going to change and we have to decide if we are going to accept it or fight it. Every day I look at where we are and what is coming around the corner. I look at where I…

Machine Intelligence has a bit of an identity crisis. We don’t know when the emergence of the first true self-aware Machine Intelligence will occur, but we are already having difficulty explaining what it is. …

Understanding the pitfalls of the Machine Intelligence future. — Like it or not, a future with Machine Intelligence is coming. We aren’t going to know exactly when this future is upon us until we witness a truly self aware MI. (It’s entirely possible that the Machine Intelligence in question may have to inform us that they are here.) But…

The term Artificial Intelligence has been used for over half a century. Throughout the years it has generally been accepted to mean a computer system that acts and behaves in a manner that simulates a human. …