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Ethics may be the most important single factor in the singularity. It has the ability to trigger the singularity explosion and it may also determine the final outcome of the singularity. ETHICS CAN TRIGGER THE SINGULARITY A positive feedback cascade effect of improved ethics (see link below) can produce an increase in intelligence that will [...]

Since our current growth rate in some areas of technology is accelerating toward a singularity threshold, it is difficult to predict what our civilization will be like in only a few hundred years. To describe civilization a thousand years from now is nearly impossible to accomplish with any confidence of accuracy. It might be reasonable [...]

Ethics is the consideration of what is the best for the most. In events where some trend goes into hyperbolic growth, instead of the event reaching infinity or ceasing to grow, there is often a fundamental change in the event process that produces a threshold in the growth curve. Anything beyond that threshold is so [...]

This short film depicts the animation of Kara, an android. “Kara” by Quantic Dream – [youtube.com] SEE ALSO: Self-conscious Intelligence 1709 – Vaucanson – bio AI Rights AI Trust Issues

Once an agreed upon standard for extra-human consciousness is established, rights and responsibilities associated with citizenship will be put into legal form. That agreed upon standard will far exceed the Turing test and will take some effort to reach. A consciousness that does not articulate itself, or is not understood, will be particularly difficult to [...]

In the fall of 2011, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig decided to offer their “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” course at Stanford in an online delivery and free. Responding to an email invitation that went viral in the blogosphere, over 160,000 students registered to take the course, although many of them dropped their participation early. The [...]

We use a variety of terms to qualify what we consider to be intelligent life: intelligence, consciousness, self-awareness, higher consciousness. There seem to be two primary ingredients common to most of the definitions of intelligent life and those are: Intelligence as some level of analytical reasoning ability and perhaps also the experience or knowledge necessary [...]

Data mining is the process of searching through data sets (typically large) and extracting smaller data sets that often show some form of pattern or relevance to the data that was not obvious before the extraction. As data sets grow larger, the need for automated tools also grows. Usually, the purpose of data mining is [...]

Artificial intelligence today is mostly a branch of computer science that attempts to create agents that collect and analyze sensory input in order to make reasoning decisions about actions to take based on the decisions. -0940 – King Mu of Zhou (Chinese mythology/history) – an engineer named Yan Shi gave King Mu a mechanical human [...]

The Ants – AI Challenge allows contestants to create small programs that control a group of ants that are in competition with other groups of ants. You can control how the ants explore the map, avoid collisions, gather food, spawn and attack enemies. Once you have a strategy encoded, your ant colony can compete against [...]