The risks that a robot’s ethics might be compromised by unscrupulous actors raise doubts over the wisdom of embedding ethical decision making in real-world safety critical robots This week my […]
Optimization over Explanation
Maximizing the benefits of machine learning without sacrificing its intelligence Imagine your Aunt Ida is in an autonomous vehicle (AV) — a self-driving car — on a city street closed to human-driven vehicles. Imagine […]
Alien Knowledge – When Machines Justify Knowledge
The infusion of AI (alien intelligence) is bringing into question the assumptions embedded in our long Western tradition. We thought knowledge was about finding the order hidden in the chaos. […]
The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI – Rodney Brooks
We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. There is hysteria about how powerful they will become how quickly, and there is hysteria about what […]
Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano
“When scientists see the world and artists see the world, they are looking at the same thing,” he says, “using a different language and viewpoint to describe it. But it’s […]