AI scientists want to make gods. Should that worry us?
“Singularitarians believe artificial intelligence will be humanity’s saviour. But they also assume AI entities will be benevolent.” Read more…
(source: The Guardian)
Virtual and artificial, but 58,000 want course
“A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body.” Read more…
(source: NY Times)
Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual
“MIT researchers just got a computer to accomplish yet another task that most humans are incapable of doing: It learned how to play a game by reading the instruction manual.” Read more…
(source: ExtremeTech)
