tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7855939127195798158..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Warping In The New Year...Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-26229802313573428452018-01-04T10:12:24.527-08:002018-01-04T10:12:24.527-08:00Khan Noonien. . . Sings.
https://singularityhub.c...Khan Noonien. . . Sings.<br /><br />https://singularityhub.com/2018/01/04/spaceflight-and-human-hibernation/#sm.00015es5rsywwe5zs8m1y1ylcpuia<br />-------------<br />This Unbelievable Research on Human Hibernation Could Get Us to Mars<br />By Gemma Milne<br />Jan 04, 2018<br />====<br /><br />Please sit and entertain me.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-46389884025607408932018-01-01T10:19:25.113-08:002018-01-01T10:19:25.113-08:00Let's all celebrate the Easy-Bake Future (hey,...Let's all celebrate the Easy-Bake Future (hey, I got nothin'<br />against sci-fi!):<br /><br />https://singularityhub.com/2018/01/01/when-will-we-finally-achieve-true-artificial-intelligence/#sm.00009zxxsauvudz310twsalotjqxb<br />-------------<br />When Will We Finally Achieve True Artificial Intelligence?<br />by Thomas Hornigold<br />Jan 01, 2018<br /><br />The field of artificial intelligence. . . was officially<br />born when a group of scientists at Dartmouth College got<br />together for a summer, back in 1956. . .<br /><br />The problem didn’t seem too hard: the Dartmouth scientists<br />wrote, “We think that a significant advance can be made<br />in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected<br />group of scientists work on it together for a summer.”. . .<br /><br />It’s fitting that the industry of predicting when we’d have<br />human-level intelligent AI was born at around the same time<br />as the AI industry itself. In fact, it goes all the way back<br />to Turing’s first paper on “thinking machines,” where he<br />predicted that the Turing Test—machines that could convince<br />humans they were human—would be passed in 50 years, by 2000.<br />Nowadays, of course, people are still predicting it will<br />happen within the next 20 years. . .<br /><br />Stuart Armstrong’s survey looked for trends in these predictions.<br />Specifically, there were two major cognitive biases he was<br />looking for. The first was the idea that AI experts predict<br />true AI will arrive (and make them immortal) conveniently just<br />before they’d be due to die. This is the “Rapture of the Nerds”<br />criticism people have leveled at Kurzweil—his predictions are<br />motivated by fear of death, desire for immortality, and are<br />fundamentally irrational. The ability to create a superintelligence<br />is taken as an article of faith. . .<br /><br />The second was the idea that people always pick a time span of<br />15 to 20 years. That’s enough to convince people they’re working<br />on something that could prove revolutionary very soon (people are<br />less impressed by efforts that will lead to tangible results<br />centuries down the line), but not enough for you to be embarrassingly<br />proved wrong. Of the two, Armstrong found more evidence for the<br />second one—people were perfectly happy to predict AI after they<br />died, although most didn’t, but there was a clear bias towards<br />“15–20 years from now” in predictions throughout history. . .<br />====<br /><br /><br />I think of the latter as the "Nasruddin and the Shah's A[I]ss" effect.<br />https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2013/12/dumb-dvorsky-flogs-nano-flim-flam.html<br /><br />https://singularityhub.com/author/thornigold/#sm.00009zxxsauvudz310twsalotjqxb<br />-------------<br />Thomas Hornigold is a physics student at the University of Oxford. When<br />he's not geeking out about the Universe, he hosts a podcast, Physical Attraction,<br />which explains physics - one chat-up line at a time.<br />====<br /><br />Cute, too. Speaking of cuteness (and Physical Attraction),<br />have you seen _Call Me By Your Name_ yet?<br /><br />Visions of Gideon - Sufjan Stevens (Call Me By Your Name)<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBUIwzN6FAjimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com