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Anna Salamon presents an idea that an increase in intelligence will dwindle our accident rate toward a vanishing point. She defines accidents as unexpected, unwanted, or undefined properties that are “bundled” with desired properties that are the consequence of some engineering or other effort. We design, engineer, manufacture and operate automobiles in order to obtain [...]

The Turing test has been used as a standard for measuring artificial intelligence by comparing it to human conversational characteristics. Soon, we will need to move beyond that standard and measure intelligence by itself. Two researchers are working on a mathematical model to accomplish that. On the hunt for universal intelligence – [physorg.com] How do [...]

John Conway’s “Game of Life” involves simple patterns of cells on a grid that modify and reproduce themselves according to rules regarding their neighboring cells. At times, the rules and patterns can combine to create interestingly complex results that appear to grow and evolve. This is a simple example of cellular automata. Cellular automata can [...]

Swarm intelligence is the process used by groups of organisms or systems or agents to self organize into collective behavior that exhibits some level of intelligent activity. Swarms of insects often seem to act as an intelligent whole, even though the actual intelligence level of each bug is observed to be quite low. Most versions [...]

The day is coming soon when we will use software agents that do integrity checking just as readily as we now use spell checkers. For an individual or group to be considered in a state of high integrity, we require behavior (actions taken) that is consistent with a framework of principles or ethic values. In [...]

Prediction involves collecting sensory input, processing it with abstraction to produce usable data, analyzing the data to find similarities and differences, correlating the analysis with past data and analysis, then attempting to extrapolate trends and synthesize conclusions, and finally, to put all of this into a format that makes sense and can be output and [...]

Artificial Intelligence will eventually cross the threshold of becoming “strong AI” or “general AI” which meets or exceeds the level of human intelligence. When a “general” or “strong” Artificial Intelligence is widely recognized as such, we will have to consider allowing the AI to be accorded the same rights as a human being. In order [...]

We already have the ability to have sex with a variety of machines and to have sex in virtual environments (from telephone and text based sex to full blown virtual worlds with avatars). The real goal of most sexual interaction is not just orgasmic release, but a sense of an intimate connection with another being. [...]

It will take time for humans to learn to trust AIs Trusting an AI (Artificial Intelligence) is not any different than trusting a human. It is normal to be wary of the unknown and wary of trusting something that you don’t understand. But, as understanding and familiarity grow, so can trust. Trust is generally developed [...]

AI agents that can act as ethical advisors to humans will be possible soon. Once we have successfully coded ethics into a logic scheme that can be translated into programming code and the agents go through a sufficient learning curve, they will be capable of offering advice on ethical decisions. EA (Ethical Advisor) agents will [...]