From Brian Wang, our guest on Sunday’s FastForward Radio. Additionally, Brian presents some other ideas about how we go about getting to the kind of future we’re looking for, including this analogy that he referenced on the show: I think of the Tom Hanks character in Saving Private Ryan on the opening Omaha beach sequence. […]
A while back, I wrote about the possibility of updating the Three Laws of Robotics as goals in order to make them a more practical means of getting at a friendly artificial general intelligence. This kicked off some interesting discussion, including some debate as to whether my “goals” really aren’t just rules rephrased. In which […]
Via SlashDot, an interesting development in an Austrian Court: Court to rule if chimp has human rights He recognises himself in the mirror, plays hide-and-seek and breaks into fits of giggles when tickled. He is also our closest evolutionary cousin. A group of world leading primatologists argue that this is proof enough that Hiasl, a […]