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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

ARBITER. “Artificial intelligence 'judge' developed by UCL computer scientists.” https://lnkd.in/dgFVu_A View in LinkedIn

NETWORKED PUTERS. “In June 2012, the New York Times reported that a cluster of 16,000 computers dedicated to mimicking some aspects of human brain activity had successfully trained itself to recognize a cat based on 10 million digital images taken from YouTube videos.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Brain View in LinkedIn

HER, the film (2013). "Set in the not-too-distant future, Spike Jonze’s film “Her” explores the romantic relationship between Samantha, a computer program, and Theodore Twombly, a human being. Though Samantha is not human, she feels the pangs of heartbreak, intermittently longs for a body and is bewildered by her own evolution. She has a rich inner life, complete with experiences and sensations." Compelling film. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/the-philosophy-of-her/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1 View in LinkedIn

MAKING THE MIND. “We therefore expect culture to have dramatically shaped the evolution of the human mind, giving us innate predispositions that only weakly constrain our behavior.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn

NATIVISM. “Culture facilitates rapid biological adaptation yet rules out nativism: Behavioral universals arise that are underpinned by weak biases rather than strong innate constraints.” https://lnkd.in/dCmU6-w View in LinkedIn