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Enslavement, robot-style

Which you may interpret in the dystopian way as the expected future: Humans being slaves to robots. As long as robots have need for us. Then, we’re superfluous [duh] and environment-unfriendly, to be entertained as pets or zoo animals at best. Until that, too, runs out of fashion. But hey, ‘robots’..? Why would we have … Continue reading “Enslavement, robot-style”

New ethics angles

Or, should I say in typical AI style, a new linear separation ..? The latter, not too literally. But in the whole thing, I suddenly [referring to, say, ‘over a quarter’] see new insights. As per the old “oh I have no clue let’s take an AI system as a black box and don’t want … Continue reading “New ethics angles”

Complexicated, One More Thing

One more then, on complexity beyond mere complication. In particular, re (IT) systems. As I posted before, there’s a difference between complicated’ness [if that is a word] and complexity. Oh no, that post I did write but didn’t yet publish; it’ll take a month… Well, anyway: Complicated is what can be tackled (modelled i.e. simplified … Continue reading “Complexicated, One More Thing”

Quantum rocks

… Was thinking: How is Quantum Computing not where AI was, around and about 25 years ago ..? The first wave having past, then, of neuron-simulation you know, like 25 years before that. ‘Expert Systems’ having had some fifteen months/years (?) of fame in between, and then, suddenly, ‘neural networks’ were all the rage. In … Continue reading “Quantum rocks”

Eternal Life

Remember Castranova’s Synthetic Worlds? You should. If only because this, is, still, in The Atlantic [edited to add: with an intelligent comment/reply here] – because that is still around, it allows for comparison of origins, and the utopical futures as described in the book, with-or-to the current state of the world. Where we have both … Continue reading “Eternal Life”

Nation(state)s No More / Not Yet

Recently, Jamie Bartlett posted an excellent analysis of the probability of the return of the nation state of the future of the planet. If only to have so many ‘of the’s in a row. Yes another one on the future of nation-states, now not from a bottom-up perspective but from an overall view. The case … Continue reading “Nation(state)s No More / Not Yet”

Your unbody double

So, there now is a thing being Artificially Intelligent 3-D Avatars. As per here. How nice. And then you realise time travel may be possible once you don’t have the physical duplication problem anymore. Though we still would have the other problems; bummer. But still, one of the problems has been solved. The others, actually … Continue reading “Your unbody double”

One extra for Two AI tipping point(er)s

To add, to the post below of a month ago. This here piece, on how AI software is now writing (better) AI software. Still in its infancy, but if you recall the Singularity praise (terroristic future), you see how fast this can get out of hand. Do you? The old bits: You may have misread … Continue reading “One extra for Two AI tipping point(er)s”

Miss Quotes: Free Hegel

The quotes, of motivational nature or other, that you meet every time again — but aren’t, since they are garbled versions of the original. And the original had much more profound wisdom, or was even true where the misquote isn’t. Yet another one in a series, a rather old one: “There’s nothing sure in life … Continue reading “Miss Quotes: Free Hegel”

Top 10 things that interest you

Where the title is a total fake, just to get higher in the pop rankings. Of course. Because that’s what life is all about and a top five wouldn’t have done the trick. Now then. On the subject of Roman decadence. Or not, because you’d not like discussions of US pre-elections in light of societal … Continue reading “Top 10 things that interest you”