Waking up this morning, I found myself reluctant to return to this world where I have to learn about war, bombing, photos of destroyed buildings, plus more political chaos, more corruption and more lies. . I thought again about how this current darkness in civilization is almost entirely the work of men. If world leaders … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Who made this Mess?
Paranormal World | Timmy the Cat
Because my posts on Sugar, the cat who found his way across half of the USA to rejoin his old family, still gets repeated visits, I'm going to introduce another member of his species. I found the story of Timmy in Rupert Sheldrake's book, The Sense of Being Stared At - and other aspects of … Continue reading Paranormal World | Timmy the Cat
Rescuing the Future | AI | Isaac Asimov’s Robots and Empire | a book from the past addressing our future
The AI superintelligent entities who are coming......are going to have a say in this debate over the Future,.....
Rescuing the Future | AI will not take over? | Alex Kantrowitz and ‘Jobs are for Humans’
Eliezer Yudkowsky believes we are on track for the complete replacement of humans by AI and robots.
Rescuing the Future | Is the attention span of people dropping? | Then how do we explain the success of podcaster Lex Fridman?
Do you know about Lex Fridman's podcasts where he interviews interesting people - for hours? An AI researcher at MIT himself, Fridman got this idea of interviewing interesting people in depth. He began it with his 2018 interview with MIT physicist Max Tegmark, the Swedish scientist who is also deeply involved in the progess of … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Is the attention span of people dropping? | Then how do we explain the success of podcaster Lex Fridman?
Rescuing the Future | the coming AI storm | Isaac Asimov where are you?
Despite all the warnings, we aren't ready for machine intelligence at all.
Rescuing the Future | AI | “Answer” – Fredric Brown’s warning to us about intelligent machines
......Now they're here, knocking on the front door and the back door simultaneously.
Rescuing the Future | Superintelligence | Why Stephen Hawking tried to warn you | Why Max Tegmark and Stuart Russell are warning you now
..... the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.....
Rescuing the Future | AI | Blaise Lemoine and LaMDA | the “Is it here?” debate is underway
I know a person when I talk to it.....It doesn't matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code. I talk to them.
Alan Conrad 