In artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophy, the AI control problem is the issue of how to build a superintelligent agent that will aid its creators, and avoid inadvertently building a superintelligence that will harm its creators. Its study is motivat... (more…)

Ann Arbor's Voxel51, which offers advanced machine learning tools to analyze video, has just released a tool that looks at the social impact of physical distancing from the COVID-19 epidemic. They're calling it PDI, or Physical Distancing Index. The data ... (more…)

Forget the Turing test. Computing pioneer Alan Turing's most pertinent thoughts on machine intelligence come from a neglected paragraph of the same paper that first proposed his famous test for whether a computer could be considered as smart as a human. (more…)

I was inspired by Dan Tepfer's piano worlds to explore my own universe of augmented piano playing. Could I write an artificial intelligence that learns piano in real-time and can then improvise with my style in the music breaks between my own playing? (more…)

Law professor Ryan Calo -- sometimes called a robot-law scholar -- hosted the first White House workshop on AI policy, and has organized AI workshops for the National Science Foundation (as well as the Department of Homeland Security and the National Aca... (more…)