In this edition, the top news starts with:
Sadly, Microsoft is focusing on VR for the PC and not the Xbox… this is a step back from statements to the opposite effect last year.
Episode 53 – Sideways TV… Because It’s Better, I Promise…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
More nonsense from a company that apparently is not paying attention to the AI industry and other emotional computing systems, claiming they did it first…
Episode 51 – AI is Getting Bigger, Better, Faster and as an Added Bonus, More Power Efficient…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
Liberal Arts are important for humans to learn, so they have something to do once their AI overlords take over and the humans lose their jobs…
Episode 49 – The Policy Overwatch Drones are Coming…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
A South African university is working on an AI system designed to analyze causation. (more…)
Episode 47 – Google Modifying Human Behavior and Forcing Humans into Right Thinking
In this edition, the top news starts with:
A somewhat disconnected group that has been around for a while, called ‘transhumanists’, seems to be picking up a bit of speed, along with supporting our coming machine overlords.
Episode 45 – Google Helping Build Pentagon War Machine
In this edition, the top news starts with:
More overhyping as General AI of what is really a narrow AI with a minor improvement in machine learning and vision processing out of Maryland (more…)
Episode 35 – AI is drilling into all aspects of our lives
In this edition, the top news starts with:
AI has started making first-person shooter levels for games. This is done using a set of two systems; where one generates, and one checks to see if what was generated is like one done by humans. Eventually, this should lower the bar in terms of engineering effort to create new games. (more…)
Episode 32 – Entangling Clouds of Atoms For our Machine Overlords
In this edition, the top news starts with:
So, um… we have a story…
people upload photos to a company’s website…
willingly…
(more…)
Episode 20: Removing Humanity from the Loop… and a Sea of Data
In this edition, the top news starts with: The US military has openly admitted to beginning development of drones that have the capacity to decide whom to kill; moving us a step closer to our coming AI overlords. (more…)
Episode 1 – 6 Mar 2018 Our First Episode…
Google is now working with a 72-qubit processor in its new Bristlecone system. Qubit based computers have the potential to support AGI development and otherwise improve cryptographic operations to levels barely even understood by modern humans; never mind the potential improvement in computing power which is just not possible to really articulate to lowly humans. (more…)