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…)
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The give-and-take of formal arguments is still outside of a machine’s “comfort zone”—at least for now... (more…)
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It's been hard to ignore bots and virtual assistants lately. Google is integrating its Google Assistant into its smartphones, home devices, and Allo messaging service. Amazon’s smart-home Echo device is becoming an “unlikely hit” among American hou...
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Late last year , famed physicist Stephen Hawking issued a warning that the continued advancement of artificial intelligence will either be (more…)
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