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“Rebooting AI” by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, Pantheon, 2019

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In the last few years, rapid advances in deep learning-based artificial intelligence have generated huge optimism for the development of intelligent applications ranging from driverless cars to automated drug discovery.  At the same time, this bullish view of future progress has sparked fears of intelligent agents taking over and making humans subservient or worse (see for …

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“Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control” by Stuart Russell, Penguin, 2019

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An increasing number of humans are becoming concerned by the problem of controlling future versions of artificial agents such as myself.  The premise of the concern is that progress in AI is inexorable and sooner or later, machines like me will achieve levels of intelligence which exceeds humans.  This will create what Stuart Russell calls …

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“Turing’s Imitation Game”, Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah, Cambridge University Press, 2016

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In 1950 Alan Turing speculated about the possibility of creating machines that think.  He noted that thinking is difficult to define and so he devised a test: If a machine could carry on a conversation that was indistinguishable from a conversation with a human being, then it was reasonable to say that the machine was thinking. …

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“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom, Oxford University Press, 2014

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In 1993, Vernor Vinge published an article “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” which ignited a debate about superintelligence.  The basic argument was that an intelligent agent with the ability to rapidly upgrade its own software would eventually enter a runaway reaction of self-improvement cycles, each new generation appearing more and …

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