
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution is to create an artificial intelligence that can manage his household, help him run his company, and even keep an eye on his child.
by John Hayward4 Jan 2016, 1:13 PM PST0

Contents: 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence; The debate about preventing the Singularity; Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change; Proof that the Singularity will occur by 2030
by John J. Xenakis29 Dec 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Science fiction has considered the question of artificial intelligence since the very beginning — what is the subject of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking novel Frankenstein if not an artificial intelligence, made from organic parts instead of metal?
by John Hayward23 Dec 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

Silicon Valley billionaires, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman announced on Friday that they are planning to help commit $1 billion to an Artificial Intelligence centre in San Francisco. OpenAI, the official name of the project, is said to
by Charlie Nash13 Dec 2015, 9:25 AM PST0

The tech elite are teaming up to protect humanity from evil Matrix-like artificial intelligence. Elon Musk and a team of Silicon Valley elite have reportedly pledged more than a billion dollars to construct artificial intelligence that benefits mankind, rather than enslaves it.
by Ferenstein Wire11 Dec 2015, 8:52 PM PST0

He doesn’t seem to be polling terribly well at the moment, but “transhumanist atheist” Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job. Scott Beauchamp of the Pacific
by John Hayward8 Nov 2015, 11:35 AM PST0

“Does God exist?” is, perhaps, humanity’s oldest philosophical question.
by Scott Pinsker30 Oct 2015, 7:24 AM PST0

Alphabet is doubling down on investments by its subsidiary into artificial intelligence and leveraging a digitized cortex to manage its flagship service.
by Nate Church27 Oct 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

For years, the advance of artificial intelligence and human augmentation has been forensically debated by three broad factions.
by Allum Bokhari27 Oct 2015, 3:00 AM PST0

Technology’s advance is bringing us closer to the uncomfortable point at which organic and mechanical life begins to merge. That’s really what the growing ethical, legal, and practical conflicts in science boil down to.
by John Hayward13 Oct 2015, 1:33 PM PST0

As fears grow over what might happen if computers gain an intelligence of their own, tax-funded entrepreneur Elon Musk is sinking over $6 million into a research project to study the worst case scenarios.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jul 2015, 5:33 PM PST0

In a national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer.
by Ferenstein Wire7 Jun 2015, 5:53 PM PST0

You’ll be able to buy a human brain’s worth of computing power for a thousand bucks in 2020 (which means just about everyone will have it.) You’ll be able to buy a machine with the computing power of all human minds combined for a thousand bucks by 2040. What will a thousand dollars buy in 2060, or 2100? A demigod?
by John Hayward29 May 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

Tech magnate Elon Musk is part of a group of science and technology celebrities—which includes Microsoft’s Bill Gates and physicist Stephen Hawking—who believe the impending development of artificial intelligence poses a threat to human society and perhaps even human survival.
by John Hayward25 May 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

It may be time to think about baptizing the Terminator, according to Reverend Christopher Benek, an associate Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, who believes that religion may help artificial intelligence live alongside human beings. “I don’t see Christ’s redemption limited to human beings. It’s redemption to all of creation, even AI. If AI is autonomous, then we have should encourage it to participate in Christ’s redemptive purposes in the world,” he said.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.23 May 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

Humanity handled Y2K. But AI may be something bigger and more difficult. After all, we didn’t have to worry about Y2K fighting back. Perhaps it’s worth thinking about the safeguards that should be built into contemporary progenitors of the future’s incredibly complex expert systems, before they become self-aware and acquire civil rights.
by John Hayward27 Mar 2015, 11:51 AM PST0

Americans are accustomed to the dominance of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as search engines, but on the global stage, a Chinese service called Baidu is now second only to Google in popularity.
by John Hayward5 Jan 2015, 9:57 PM PST0