Category: AI
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Computers listening to humans. Humans becoming like computers…
Speech recognition software isn't perfect, but it is a little closer to human this week, as a Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research team reached a major milestone in speech-to-text development: The system reached a historically low word error rate of 5.9 percent, equal to the accuracy of a professional (human) transcriptionist. The system can discern…
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Chess: random wise moves. Not possible. From a computer anyway. [OR: The futility of artificial intelligence]
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. At the beginning of the second game the computer made…
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Humans vs. Computers: Does it matter?
A machine beating a human champion in Go. (1) We keep on choosing to fight the wrong battles. And that is why we will always lose… Try choosing a different path. Unplug the computer. Go for a walk. Listen to the birds singing. Feel your victory deep inside your soul…
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Who will your (future) automatic car decide to kill? [What does Jesus have to do with it?!?]
In philosophy, there’s an ethical question called the trolley problem. If you had to push one large person in front of a moving trolley to save a group of people on the tracks, would you? This abstract idea has taken hold in programming self-driving cars: what happens if it’s impossible to avoid everyone? Researchers from…
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Killed by a robot…
A robot killed a human. (1) And this is not the only such case. Many times humans are killed by robots. Is this murder? Can the soulless kill the soul? Can the unconscious destroy the consciousness? We are all here and now. Alive. And an accident may make us stop being. It seems so tragically…
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