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IMPRESSIVE AI. "One would be Deep Mind's DQN system. It essentially just wakes up, sees the screen of a video game, and works out how to play the video game to a superhuman level. It can do that for about 30 different Atari titles. And that's both impressive and scary, in the sense that if a human baby was born and, by the evening of its first day, already beating adult human beings at video games." https://lnkd.in/dKNnZ8G View in LinkedIn

MACHINE DIALOGUE. “Chatbots are computer programs that can carry on conversations with human users, often through an instant-message style interface.” https://lnkd.in/dXFUfPZ View in LinkedIn

“A CHATBOT (also known as a talkbot, chatterbot, Bot, chatterbox, Artificial Conversational Entity) is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods. Such programs are often designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner, thereby passing the Turing test. Chatterbots are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer service or information acquisition. Some chatterbots use sophisticated natural language processing systems, but many simpler systems scan for keywords within the input, then pull a reply with the most matching keywords, or the most similar wording pattern, from a database.“ https://lnkd.in/dXFUfPZ View in LinkedIn

PERSONAL ASSISTANTS. “Google and Microsoft offer digital assistants on smartphones, called Google Now and Cortana, respectively, which have deep knowledge of their users’ habits and schedules. Amazon sells a stand-alone device that, among other things, plays music, reads books aloud and can help buy items through Amazon." https://lnkd.in/dE4PBcV View in LinkedIn

HUMANNESS. “If your system really understood complex natural language, would you argue that it’s conscious? Well, I do. I’ve had a consistent date of 2029 for that vision. And that doesn’t just mean logical intelligence. It means emotional intelligence, being funny, getting the joke, being sexy, being loving, understanding human emotion. That’s actually the most complex thing we do. That is what separates computers and humans today. I believe that gap will close by 2029.” https://lnkd.in/dY3PfJs View in LinkedIn

ROBOTS living amongst us...must see images. https://flip.it/UsE07b View in LinkedIn

UNFATHOMABLE. “AI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions.” https://lnkd.in/dv5Sm3b View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE spends this and next weekend looking at the biology of culture, a challenging but important subject. Only recently have scientists started to tackle seriously this topic, previously thought unscientific and probably bogus. But careful thinking combined with animal survey across taxa of behavior suggest it is not only real, but widespread in nature. Even microbes have social culture and communication. View in LinkedIn

UPLOAD. “In the new techno-thriller “Upload,” a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making.” https://lnkd.in/dFVg79g View in LinkedIn