Exploring the Future of AI – In Chinese
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Crazy Wisdom Podcast
It was great to join Stewart Alsop on his podcast, Crazy Wisdom recently. In our hour together, we did a deep dive into a broad range of topics around AI. Some of the highlights included: The importance of narrative and storytelling as a tool for exploring the future of AI, […]
Spiraling into the New Year
It’s that time of year again and you know the drill. With the commencing of another January, most of us are resetting our annual clocks, our scheduled tasks, our aspirations, as we prepare for yet another trip around the sun. But is this really the best metaphor for what […]
The Wild West of AI Futures (FuturePod interview)
It was my great pleasure to return to the FuturePod podcast recently for another conversation with futurist Peter Hayward. Given the rapid pace of change in the world of AI, there was a lot to talk about, as we try to make sense of the many factors driving the current […]
Human Nature and AI Doomerism
Midjourney image of robot and boy We live in a time of immense and often rapid change. Being in the midst of all of this, it’s easy for us to see much of the world in negative terms. Perhaps nothing illustrates this tendency so much as AI doomerism. Certainly, there’s […]
Review: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Since the advent of the computer age and quite possibly before, popular media has seized on the idea of a superintelligent machine and turned it into a clichéd tale of warning. Too often a monolithic mind with an ill-defined need for global destruction or domination is eventually thwarted because a […]
Are You Smarter Than a Sixth-Generation Computer?
My latest article, “Are You Smarter Than a Sixth-Generation Computer?” leads off this month’s issue of The Futurist magazine. (Sept/Oct 2012) The article explores the need for a standard metric for AIs and is based on my paper, “Toward a Standard Metric of Machine Intelligence”, which I recently published in […]
Alan Turing: A Unique Human Being
In futures thinking, often it’s important to look back in order to look ahead. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, offering the perfect opportunity to do both.
Rise of the Intelligent Machines
I’m beginning a short series at Psychology Today about the ongoing advances being made in machine intelligence. I’d originally thought about using “The Ascent of Machine” for the series title — after Jacob Bronowski’s wonderful work, “The Ascent of Man”, which I found so inspiring when it first came out. […]
An Argument For The Singularity
Earlier this week, Charles Stross posted his thoughts on why he doesn’t think the Technological Singularity will happen. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the Technological Singularity is defined as that point in the future when a self-improving artificial general intelligence (AGI) achieves superintelligence. As Stross recommends, if you’re […]