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Andrew Lyons's List: Artificial Intelligence: Tech and Psychology

  • Google side-steps AI rumours - ZDNet.co.uk

    • "I think that goes back to the concept that these technologies can actually be empowering and good for the world if the companies implementing them are good," he said. "Could some of these technologies be used for bad purposes? Yes. But will they by us? No."

  • Google Book Search Settlement: Recent Developments | Electronic Frontier Foundation

    Updates on the settlement over Google's text scanning and indexing operation from the Electronic Freedom Foundation. EFF seems to remain cautiously optimistic about the project and the settlement, being more concerned about author's rights and reader's privacy.

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    • EFF has been working with a group of authors and publishers who are concerned about the failure of the settlement to contain any privacy protections for readers. The lack of privacy protections could scare readers away from controversial and noncontroversial subjects alike, hurting authors as well as readers. Reader privacy has strong protection offline; our goal is to ensure that these protections continue as books move online.
    • The court rejected a request from the Internet Archive to intervene in the case to raise the concerns of others who have undertaken book digitization efforts.
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  • Google Faces Antitrust Investigation for Agreement to Digitize Millions of Books Online

    This is interesting in that it's an interview with Brewster Kahle of the INternet Archive, which basically sees itself as a competitor to Google's book scanning. Brewster, though, imagines that he's doing this work for people. Google is scanning books for computers to read, which wasn't mentioned in this interview.

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    • But what they did is go further than that and go and say, “Not only are we going to address past harm, we’re going to set up new structures for dealing with things in the future. We’re going to come up with a new copyright regime that allows Google to go and sell access to these works,” in this kind of bizarre new scheme that nobody had ever heard of, on a perpetual, going-forward basis. So class action usually tries to address past harm. Here, it’s setting up completely new copyright structures for going and dealing with things in the future. It’s unprecedented.
    • BREWSTER KAHLE: What they’re doing is they’re digitizing books up a storm, so out-of-copyright works, which are works before 1923; in-copyright, but out-of-print works, which are the vast majority after 1923 and the present. Most books are out of print. And they’re even digitizing books that are in print. And they’re working with publishers to try to make sure that things that are in print, they can have in their search engine. In the out of copyright, it’s OK; there’s no rights issues there, they can make those available.

  • “We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”

    Disruptive Library Technology Jester, review of The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr.

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    • George Dyson, a historian of technology…, Freeman Dyson, was invited to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, in October 2005 to give a speech at the party celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of von Neumann’s invention [of an electronic computer that could store in its memory the instructions for its use]. “Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, “Dyson would later recall of his visit, “I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air.” After his talk, Dyson found himself chatting with a Google engineer about the company’s controversial plan to scan the contents of the world’s libraries into its database. “We are not scanning all of those books to be read by people,” the engineer told him. “We are scanning them to be read by an [artificial intelligence engine].”

  • Singularity 101 with Vernor Vinge

    h+ Magazine talks with Vernor Vinge, the science fiction writer who coined "the singularity" within terms of artificial intelligence.

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    • The contemporary notion of the Singularity got started with legendary SF writer Vernor Vinge, whose 1981 novella True Names pictured a society on the verge of this “event.” In a 1993 essay, “The Coming Technological Singularity,” Vinge made his vision clear, writing that “within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.”
    • I think that in the relatively near historical future, humans, using technology, will be able to create, or become, creatures of superhuman intelligence. I think the term Singularity is appropriate, because unlike other technological changes, it seems to me pretty evident that this change would be unintelligible to us afterwards in the same way that our present civilization is unintelligible to a goldfish.
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  • Thought Experiments: When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device

    An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil by Cory Doctorow. Includes interesting bit on Alan Turing.

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    • The traditional AI answer is the Turing Test, invented by Alan Turing, the gay pioneer of cryptography and artificial intelligence who was forced by the British government to take hormone treatments to "cure" him of his homosexuality, culminating in his suicide in 1954. Turing cut through the existentialism about measuring whether a machine is intelligent by proposing a parlor game: a computer sits behind a locked door with a chat program, and a person sits behind another locked door with his own chat program, and they both try to convince a judge that they are real people. If the computer fools a human judge into thinking that it’s a person, then to all intents and purposes, it’s a person.
    • "Turing had the right insight: base the test for intelligence on written language. Turing Tests really work. A novel is based on language: with language you can conjure up any reality, much more so than with images. Turing almost lived to see computers doing a good job of performing in fields like math, medical diagnosis and so on, but those tasks were easier for a machine than demonstrating even a child’s mastery of language. Language is the true embodiment of human intelligence."

  • Darpa: Heat + Energy = Brains. Now Make Us Some. | Danger Room

    The U.S. military’s premiere research agency is already trying to use math to predict human behavior and neuroscience to replicate a primate’s brain. The next step: Lean on the study of energy and heat to create an entirely new theory for how intelligence actually works.

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    • Now, the military wants a new equation: one that explains the human mind as a thermodynamic system. Once that’s done, they’re asking for “abiotic, self-organizing electronic and chemical systems” that display the PI principles. More than just computers that think, Darpa wants to re-envision how thought works — and then design computers whose thought processes are governed by the same laws as our own.

  • Create an AI on Your Computer | Singularity Hub

    • The ultimate goal of Intelligence Realm is to create an AI or multiple AIs, and use these intelligences in scientific endeavors. By focusing on the human brain as a prototype, they can create an intelligence that solves problems and “thinks” like a human.

  • Here Come the Neurobots | h+ Magazine

    • CARL-1, his latest model, is a squat, white trash can contraption with a couple of shopping cart wheels bolted to its side, a video camera wired to the lid, and a couple of bunny ears taped on for good measure. But open up that lid and you’ll find something remarkable — the beginnings of a truly biological nervous system.
    • “Put a couple of my robots inside a maze,” says Krichmar, “let them run it a few times, and what each of those robots learns will be different. Those differences are magnified into behavior pretty quickly.” When psychologists define personality, it’s along the lines of “idiosyncratic behavior that’s predictive of future behavior.” What Krichmar is saying is that his brain bots are developing personalities — and they’re doing it pretty quickly.
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  • Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend - Boing Boing

    • Love Plus relationships feel more real.
    • It made me think that humans could probably pretty easily develop feelings for AI robots.
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