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"Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence By 2020?"

Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

"It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future," says scifi legend Vernor Vinge, "create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such an event -- such a singularity -- are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a flatworm."

"Homo Sapiens' Last Invention": The First Self-Replicating Intelligent Machine

"Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."

 I.J. Good

"E": Building an Evil Artificial Intelligence (& It's Not SciFi)

This headline isn't hyperbole, or overextension, or us rearranging the idea to make it punchier:  a group of cognitive science researchers are intentionally building an evil artificial intelligence.  Which raises a lot of important questions: what is true evil?  What are the ethics of creating evil?  And how do so many people get jobs as scientists without ever seeing a scifi movie?

NexGen AI -A Threat to Human Civilization?

What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones?

AI is becoming the stuff of future scifi greats: A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

"AI to Surpass Human Intelligence By 2020" -Says SciFi Great

Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

1st Artificially Intelligent Adam & Eve Created

The rise of the robots hasn't resulted in a murderous rampage quite yet, but it has reaped an enormous toll on low-level jobs.  Assembly lines, farms, factories - the machines have taken over millions of man-hours, but now the scientists have surpassed those systems and begun to make themselves obsolete.  Because Adam is online - and he's a scientist.

Will Artificial Organism with Advanced Group Intelligence Evolve?

Remember Michael Crichton's science-fiction novel, "Prey"? Well,  researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects such as ants.

Swarm robotics is a field of study based on the supposition that simple, individual robots can interact and collaborate to form a single artificial organism with more advanced group intelligence.

Real-Life Droid Army of Robotic Spiders to Be Deployed 'By End of the Year'

In another creepy case of life mimicking fiction, BAE Systems is creating an army of robotic spiders that they will be selling to the US Army to use in warfare. The development is causing some worry over whether some of the frightening scenes in the sci-fi flick Minority Report were a fairly accurate representation of the future.

Artificial Intelligence Aiding Search for Life on Mars

Over the past several years we have heard a lot from the European Space Agency in their search for signs of past or present life on Mars. Since January 2005, the Express search has been using its sophisticated instruments to study all aspects of Mars; from its atmosphere, all the way down to its subsurface.

As a result, we’ve seen evidence of glaciers, water, and more that has lent support to the idea that there could be, or could have been, life on Mars.

Artificial Intelligence to Control Air Traffic

I would be remiss if I didn’t start this article out preaching some sort of dire warnings about the threat of artificial intelligence and robotic overlords. And when you hear of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) creating an AI that can run air traffic control stations, you begin to wonder how wise it is letting DARPA have any money whatsoever.

"Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence By 2020?"

Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

"It seems plausible that with technology we can, in the fairly near future," says scifi legend Vernor Vinge, "create (or become) creatures who surpass humans in every intellectual and creative dimension. Events beyond such an event -- such a singularity -- are as unimaginable to us as opera is to a flatworm."

"Homo Sapiens' Last Invention": The First Self-Replicating Intelligent Machine

"Let an ultra-intelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make."

 I.J. Good

"E": Building an Evil Artificial Intelligence (& It's Not SciFi)

This headline isn't hyperbole, or overextension, or us rearranging the idea to make it punchier:  a group of cognitive science researchers are intentionally building an evil artificial intelligence.  Which raises a lot of important questions: what is true evil?  What are the ethics of creating evil?  And how do so many people get jobs as scientists without ever seeing a scifi movie?

NexGen AI -A Threat to Human Civilization?

What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones?

AI is becoming the stuff of future scifi greats: A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

"AI to Surpass Human Intelligence By 2020" -Says SciFi Great

Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

1st Artificially Intelligent Adam & Eve Created

The rise of the robots hasn't resulted in a murderous rampage quite yet, but it has reaped an enormous toll on low-level jobs.  Assembly lines, farms, factories - the machines have taken over millions of man-hours, but now the scientists have surpassed those systems and begun to make themselves obsolete.  Because Adam is online - and he's a scientist.

Will Artificial Organism with Advanced Group Intelligence Evolve?

Remember Michael Crichton's science-fiction novel, "Prey"? Well,  researchers at the University of York have investigated large swarms of up to 10,000 miniature robots which can work together to form a single, artificial life form. The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behavior of social insects such as ants.

Swarm robotics is a field of study based on the supposition that simple, individual robots can interact and collaborate to form a single artificial organism with more advanced group intelligence.

Real-Life Droid Army of Robotic Spiders to Be Deployed 'By End of the Year'

In another creepy case of life mimicking fiction, BAE Systems is creating an army of robotic spiders that they will be selling to the US Army to use in warfare. The development is causing some worry over whether some of the frightening scenes in the sci-fi flick Minority Report were a fairly accurate representation of the future.

Artificial Intelligence Aiding Search for Life on Mars

Over the past several years we have heard a lot from the European Space Agency in their search for signs of past or present life on Mars. Since January 2005, the Express search has been using its sophisticated instruments to study all aspects of Mars; from its atmosphere, all the way down to its subsurface.

As a result, we’ve seen evidence of glaciers, water, and more that has lent support to the idea that there could be, or could have been, life on Mars.

Artificial Intelligence to Control Air Traffic

I would be remiss if I didn’t start this article out preaching some sort of dire warnings about the threat of artificial intelligence and robotic overlords. And when you hear of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) creating an AI that can run air traffic control stations, you begin to wonder how wise it is letting DARPA have any money whatsoever.