http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

Het bericht THE AI REVOLUTION: THE ROAD TO SUPERINTELLIGENCE verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Ex Machina is your standard film script of boy meets girl. Except that this girl is a robot: a robot girlfriend programmed by a sociopathic billionaire. And she is a robot who may just want a mind of her own – with a master who won’t relinquish control.

Alex Garland: how we made Ex Machina

Alex Garland on Ex Machina, artificial intelligence & the future | Channel 4 News

Ex Machina | Examining Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence

Jay and John take turns praising a solid Science Fiction film. No major spoilers.

Scene Breakdown | Ex Machina

IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

Samira Ahmed on Ex Machina
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yk7h4

Alex Garland on Ex Machina
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ykk5b

Het bericht Ex Machina – Official Trailer verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Het bericht The long-term future of AI verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

1) 11:42 Ray discusses the expansion of our neocortex into the cloud.

2) 13:33 What are the limits to the exponential acceleration of information technology?

3) 14:27 Ray comments on the downside to advanced A.I. technology.

4) 15:08 One of his health books, ‘Fantastic Voyage’, is subtitled ‘Live Long Enough To Live Forever.’ Ray elaborates on living forever.

5) 16:03 Ray describes an important biotechnology tipping point which will occur in 10-15 years.

6) 16:44 Ray was appointed Google’s Director of Engineering in 2012. He explains what projects he & his team @Google are working on.

7) 18:21 I ask Ray, of his many inventions & achievements, what is he the most proud of?

http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/01/ray-kurzweil-on-how-we-will-become-god.html

Het bericht How We Will Become God-Like – Ray Kurzweil verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Het bericht The Singularity Is Near – Movie Trailer verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus has a new security team– 300-pound robots equipped with high-def, omnidirectional video capture, thermal imaging, infrared, radar, and more are patrolling around. They’re called K5 from a company called Knightscope, and they have an interesting strategy to deter crime.

Het bericht Crime-Fighting Robotic Guard… for $6.25 an Hour verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

During our 1 hour discussion with Michael we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: his dream to reverse aging and the desirability and feasibility thereof; the Hayflick limit of cell division and Aubrey de Grey’s concerns that telomerase therapy may cause cancer; the distinction between reversing aging and living forever; his “non-sexy” tips on healthy living; his take on cryonics and transhumanism…

My favorite quotes that I will take away from this interview with Michael Fossel are:

“Ageing is dynamic, not static”

“Never mind the low-hanging fruit. [...] Go for the important one!”

“The reason to do this [reverse aging] is not to double somebody’s lifespan. The reason to do this is because people out there are hurting. They are frightened. They are terrified by the things that happen to them when they get disease. The reason to do this is because we are human and we should be working at this. It’s not playing God, it is working at being human. It’s compassion. It’s not a matter of living longer, it is a matter of making people healthy again.”

https://www.singularityweblog.com/michael-fossel/

Het bericht Reverse Aging = Compassion verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Elon Musk is no Luddite, but that doesn’t mean he’s eager to embrace all new technology.

“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence,” the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, said Friday in a talk at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. “If I were to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.”

During his talk–given in conjunction with the centennial celebration of the university’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department–Musk urged government authorities to regulate A.I. to prevent researchers from doing “something very foolish.”

“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” he said. “You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and it’s like yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon. Doesn’t work out.”

This isn’t the first time Musk has expressed concerns over A.I. In an interview with The Huffington Post in January, he said, “I hope the A.I. is nice to us.” And earlier this year, he wrote in a tweet that artificial intelligence is “potentially more dangerous than nukes.”

Among those who seem to share Musk’s concerns is celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking.

“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history,” Hawking said in a Huffington Post blog post co-written by physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek and computer scientist Stuart Russell. “Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence_n_6053804.html

Het bericht Elon Musk on AI: “We’re Summoning the Demon” verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Greg Bear is truly one of the masters of classic science fiction – he has written over 35 books, that have sold millions of copies, and have been translated in 22 languages. No wonder I was not only immensely excited but also pretty nervous while preparing to interview him face to face. As it turned out I was worrying for nothing: Greg Bear is a really affable fellow with a fantastic sense of humor and, together with his wife Astrid, endlessly generous hospitality. Bear is also a passionate macro-photographer with the most stunning dragon-fly pictures that I have seen in my life. Thus it is a total understatement to say that I had an absolute blast spending a full day of shooting 4 Singularity 1 on 1 episodes at his house, including the attached 90 min interview.

During our conversation with Greg Bear we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: how he got inspired to write; what is science fiction; the role of photography and visual imagery; the merging of philosophy and science; sci fi as the jazz of literature; religion, mysticism and his take on Jesus; the birth of Comic-Con; whether science fiction inspires science or vice versa; the singularity, transhumanism and “the brick wall of philosophy”…

This interview was so packed of intellectual gems that I almost feel like shying away from listing any. But here are just two of my favorites, and you feel free to share yours in the comment section below: “…The people who are changing the world read science fiction.” “In a sense, science fiction is history in reverse…”

Het bericht Interview with Greg Bear on Science Fiction, Singularity verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.

Related: What If The Matrix is Real?
http://www.corly.tv/artificial-intelligence/matrix-real-2014/

What It Will Take for Computers to Be Conscious
The world’s best-known consciousness researcher says machines could one day become self-aware.

If I build a perfect software model of the brain, it would never be conscious, but a specially designed machine that mimics the brain could be?

Correct. This theory clearly says that a digital simulation would not be conscious, which is strikingly different from the dominant functionalist belief of 99 percent of people at MIT or philosophers like Daniel Dennett. They all say, once you simulate everything, nothing else is required, and it’s going to be conscious.

I think consciousness, like mass, is a fundamental property of the universe. The analogy, and it’s a very good one, is that you can make pretty good weather predictions these days. You can predict the inside of a storm. But it’s never wet inside the computer. You can simulate a black hole in a computer, but space-time will not be bent. Simulating something is not the real thing.

It’s the same thing with consciousness. In 100 years, you might be able to simulate consciousness on a computer. But it won’t experience anything. Nada. It will be black inside. It will have no experience whatsoever, even though it may have our intelligence and our ability to speak.

I am not saying consciousness is a magic soul. It is something physical. Consciousness is always supervening onto the physical. But it takes a particular type of hardware to instantiate it. A computer made up of transistors, moving charge on and off a gate, with each gate being connected to a small number of other gates, is just a very different cause-and-effect structure than what we have in the brain, where you have one neuron connected to 10,000 input neurons and projecting to 10,000 other neurons. But if you were to build the computer in the appropriate way, like a neuromorphic computer [see “Thinking in Silicon”], it could be conscious.

If I were to put you in a room with a computer from the future, would you be able to determine if it’s conscious?

I couldn’t from the outside. I would have to look at its hardware.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531146/what-it-will-take-for-computers-to-be-conscious/

Het bericht The Simulation Argument – Nick Bostrom verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Volgens Erik Brynjolfsson van het MIT Center for Digital Business staat onze westerse samenleving op de drempel van een nieuwe tijd. Het zijn niet langer alleen de fysieke werkzaamheden die steeds meer door machines gedaan worden; robots en algoritmes gaan ook steeds meer middenklasse-werk verrichten. Accountants en kantoorpersoneel maar ook advocaten en beurshandelaren en ingenieurs zullen steeds meer moeten gaan omzien naar ander werk.
(abonneer je op de nieuwsbrief en blijf op de hoogte van nieuwe afleveringen)
Maar omdat onze samenlevingen in de laatste dertig jaar steeds rijker zijn geworden, is dit wellicht juist een uitgelezen moment om eens te gaan doordenken over een ander sociaal stelsel, dat beter is toegerust op de huidige tijd. Zou een basisinkomen de hoeksteen kunnen zijn van een nieuwe maatschappelijke structuur? Een sociaal model waarin niet eindeloos uitkeringen en toeslagen worden rondgepompt (80% van de Nederlandse huishoudens krijgt momenteel één of andere vorm van toeslag)? En waarin we mensen niet langer dwingen tot zoeken naar banen die niet meer bestaan?
In het Canadese dorp Dauphin kregen duizend mensen (één derde van de bevolking) tussen 1974-1978 zo nodig een aanvullende uitkering, zonder tegenverplichting. En wat bleek? De deelnemers bleven grotendeels werken of gingen meer studeren, en ze waren minder vaak ziek of depressief. Tegenlicht regisseur Shuchen Tan toog naar Canada en sprak met projectleider Ron Hikel, onderzoekster Evelyn Forget en families die toentertijd deelnamen aan het sociale experiment.
Wat zou er gebeuren als we de bevindingen van dit Mincome project doortrekken naar Nederland anno 2014? Samen met econoom Marcel Canoy, voormalig adviseur van Barroso, berekent Tegenlicht wat invoering zou kosten: is het haalbaar en betaalbaar? En we nemen een kijkje bij de Vereniging Basisinkomen, waar twee generaties elkaar vinden in de eerste kiemen van wat onze sociale toekomst zou kunnen worden.
Regie: Shuchen Tan
Research: William de Bruijn
Productie: Marie Schutgens en Jessica van Beek
Eindredactie: Henneke Hagen en Frank Wiering
Animaties: Rogier Klomp

Het bericht Gratis geld – Tegenlicht verscheen eerst op Corly TV.

Related: The Simulation Argument – Nick Bostrom
http://www.corly.tv/artificial-intelligence/simulation-argument-nick-bostrom/

Het bericht What If The Matrix is Real? – 2014 verscheen eerst op Corly TV.