“Cognitive computing chips aim to reduce the cost of extracting information from ever changing spatial-temporal environments around us by an order of 100,000. Imagine the impact,” humans.
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Cognitive Computing: 100,000x Cost Reduction Impact
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IBM’s Watson: A.I. Jeopardy Master
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From The New York Times: What Is I.B.M.’s Watson?
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Google Eywa: What's Buzz Got To Do With It?
IMO, this buzz experiment is like a first, if awkward attempt, at enabling a fledgling global cognition grid to help us find our own true selves through all the amazing connections that we didn't even know we already had in place. There are always plenty of caveats to any upbeat Utopian perspective, of course; however, there are also plenty of problems with a perspective that insists that the current status quo is the best of all possible worlds.
If the panoptic Google Eywa stays entirely open to universal cross-checking and auditing by anyone, any time, there is an actual chance that we could engineer it so that it can't become evil and might even help us humans to become more authentically self-realized in the process.
I also propose that the GCG can and should become a Harry Potter-like Sorting Hat that filters us humans and configures us into research and project teams for maximum happiness and productivity in discovering and understanding the nature of our universe while enabling us to each explore and establish our most adaptive roles within it. Such ideas have been the subject of science fiction for decades; today, to borrow technoprogressive prose from the inimitable Dr. J, the tangible means for "a sexy, high-tech, radically democratic" participatory #futuretechture are clearly at hand. The GCG design-build decision is no longer a matter of whether we will be able to do so; but rather, whether or not We Will To Do So.
Back in the present tense, this means that we should be able to have a fairly high degree of confidence in the fact that if Google Eywa (well, an optimally configured Buzz recommendation engine, for now) lets someone through to participate in our thought-stream, it's probably a fairly benign, or even potentially really helpful entity. This is not yet the case and is a fundamentally crucial design criteria.
Parenthetical Inset: I'd love to read many more essays from many more perspectives on implications for such a scenario. Feel free to write them, or if already written, simply point to your work in the comments here. I know that's a practice frowned upon in today's concept of The Bogged Down Blog; however, this site is not about creating another pop culture blog comment repository; it's about learning how to figure out the UFIS concept.
Why does all this interest me? You'd have to scan this entire stream and web site for the full answer, but one simple reason is that I believe in the work over at SIAI and I am increasingly convinced that only the right Source Code Design and Audit Processes in the eventual AGI can save us from our individual and collective lesser, suboptimal ourselves.
Finally, it certainly seems that this post -- which I will continue to reflect as far and wide as possible, to eliminate FUD -- provides grounds for more than a little positive trans-cortical uplift. -
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Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics
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On Thursday, November 12, 2009, sponsored by The Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics: Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of robotics in warfare, medicine, and exploration. Industry analysts and UN statistics predict equally significant growth in the market for personal or service robotics over the next few years. What unique legal challenges will the widespread availability of sophisticated robots pose? Three panelists with deep and varied expertise discuss the present, near future, and far future of robotics and the law.
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Of Neuro Economics and Artificial Brains
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