21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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AI KILL SWITCH. “Safe interruptibility can be useful to take control of a robot that is misbehaving and may lead to irreversible consequences, or to take it out of a delicate situation, or even to temporarily use it to achieve a task it did not learn to perform or would not necessarily receive rewards for this.” https://lnkd.in/dNvbmQe View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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AI READING LIST. “The tech world’s book-nerd-in-chief wants you to add two books to your list of summer science reads. To get up to speed on artificial intelligence, Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates recommends Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence and Pedro Domingos’s The Master Algorithm.” http://qz.com/698334/bill-gates-says-these-are-the-two-books-we-should-all-read-to-understand-ai/ View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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BIGGEST EVENT IN HISTORY. "Hawking has argued superintelligent artificial intelligence could be pivotal in steering humanity's fate, stating that "the potential benefits are huge... Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. It might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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HUMAN STUPIDITY. “We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it’s a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.” Stephen Hawking: AI will be 'either best or worst thing' for humanity.” http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/19/stephen-hawking-ai-best-or-worst-thing-for-humanity-cambridge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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STEPHEN HAWKING, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
linkedin post 2020-04-25 04:41:51

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DEMOGRAPHY, TWO WAYS. “Evolution drives, and is driven by, demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype’s age patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns in turn determine the genotype’s fitness in that environment.” https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12789 View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a wide-ranging and interesting article by professor Reto Burri, a German ecologist, about evolution that covers the links between natural selection, demography and genomics, with an emphasis on birds; this covers a sizable chunk of the heart of evolution. https://lnkd.in/d6894Jh View in LinkedIn
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