We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you need some kind of reference point. It’s natural we take some past point and monitor things into the future. But when you reference back to […]
Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem
Amy Maxmen lauds a study of the bold project to rescue Owens Lake – Adaptation and Survival California’s Owens Lake, once one of the largest inland bodies of water in the U.S., shrank to nearly nothing in early 20th century. At the start of the twentieth century, Owens Lake in southern California […]
A moral map for AI cars – reveal that moral choices are not universal
The Moral Machine Experiment – Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. How do different cultures value human life? To find out, researchers created a viral online experiment to gather data from millions of participants across the world. Some values generalised across cultures, but others came as a surprise. When a driver […]
THE AI INDEX 2017 ANNUAL REPORT
A long report on the state of AI. For all those interested in this multidimensional rapidly evolving phenomena – holding the sum of all fears and hopes. Created and launched as a project of the One Hundred Year Study on AI at Stanford University (AI100), the AI Index is an open, not-for-profit project to track […]