Scientific American article on Computer Chess

[jdart]

SciAm used to have standards, but they have fallen pretty far from the level they used to be at. They have become something more like Popular Science.

--Jon

[duncan]

The ones who are making the promises (or rather, threats) are still the academics, this time people like Hawkins who just need the attention.

I was a bit surprised about gates and musk, discussing the threats of ai as they do not seem to be publicity seekers.

as for hawking possibly he misses not getting a nobel prize. although ironically maybe Steinhauer's (an israeli researcher) findings will be useful to him.


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/stephen- ... lanet.html

Stephen Hawking says humans must colonize another planet in 100 years or face extinction

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Previously, Hawking theorized that humanity probably has around 1,000 years left before it becomes extinct. His timeline appears now to have shortened. The famous physicist has issued a number of warnings about the future over the past few years.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/31047780

Humans should be worried about the threat posed by artificial Intelligence, Bill Gates has said.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/scie ... m-1.737414

The Israeli Research That’s Bringing Stephen Hawking Closer to the Nobel Prize

The results of Prof. Jeff Steinhauer's black hole experiment at the Technion bridges two previously unreconcilable theories of physics.

[Dirt]

The thing about AI, you need understand why? It just cannot be because the black box says so. And we're still quite aways from that.

If we understand the "why" it won't be considered artificial intelligence by many. They will just say it's a mechanical simulation of intelligence.