Category: Philosophy

  • Chomsky on AI: Can there be a Different Kind of AI?

    Chomsky on AI: Can there be a Different Kind of AI?

    The Great AI Debate of 2022: Takeaways Recently, AI expert & critical thinker Gary Marcus convened the “AI Debate 3: Towards AGI”, a virtual 4 hour meeting that was held amongst 16 of the world’s leading experts on AI and aligned fields. Perhaps most poignant amongst them was the views of living legend Noam Chomsky…

  • Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead

    Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead

    We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…

  • The AI Interview, Part 1 of…

    The AI Interview, Part 1 of…

    The plan was to just go straight down the list of questions I had prepared in advance… the proverbial “AI Interview.” But, just as with real human dialogs, we detoured down a few rabbit holes along the way, and got cut short when the AI… well, just read on: 2022.11.18 Fri • 14:05:30-14:32:21 [TS]OpenAI GPT3…

  • A New Prime Directive: LOVE

    A New Prime Directive: LOVE

    “As we are architecting the AI, it is imperative that we design it from the ground up to have, in the words of Sutskever, a new Prime Directive: that is, a genuine ‘love for humanity.’ We must explicitly train it in morals, ethics and values, because the smarter it becomes, the more responsibility we will…

  • Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?

    Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?

    There’s a new sheriff in town, kids. Justs the other day, I learned of a new field of study, replete with PhD candidates and its own scholarly journal: Its called… wait for it: “computational neuroscience for AI minds.” The article was detailing the bizarre near-total opacity of the AI brain and how scientists were working…