[ad_1] One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should help people, rather than disempower or replace them. I care about aligning artificial intelligence — that is, making sure that AI systems act in accordance with human values — because I […]
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[ad_1] One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should help people, rather than disempower or replace them. I care about aligning artificial intelligence — that is, making sure that AI systems act in accordance with human values — because I […]
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[ad_1] Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has said that artificial general intelligence (AGI) or AI systems capable of human-level cognitive abilities could be five to ten years away. However, the Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher ruled out that today’s AI systems possess any form of consciousness. He also acknowledged that these AI tools are lacking in […]
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[ad_1] It has been an exasperating week for computer scientists. They’ve been falling over each other to publicly denounce claims from Google engineer Blake Lemoine, chronicled in a Washington Post report, that his employer’s language-predicting system was sentient and deserved all of the rights associated with consciousness. To be clear, current artificial intelligence systems are […]
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