Artificial Intelligence and You

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How do you drive a community of futurists? David Wood was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now an independent futurist consultant, speaker and writer. As Chair of the London Futurists, he has hosted over 200 public discussions about technoprogressive topics. He is the author or lead editor of nine books, including Smartphones for All, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, and Sustainable Superabundance.

In part 1 of our interview, we talk about David's singularitarian philosophy, the evolution and impact of Deep Learning, and his SingularityNET infrastructure for AI interoperation.

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Tony Czarnecki is a futurist and a Managing Partner of Sustensis, London – a Think Tank for inspirations for Humanity's transition to coexistence with superintelligence – the final form of an ever faster and more intelligent, self-learning and perhaps even conscious Artificial Intelligence. Tony is the author of several books on the subject of Superintelligence.

In this concluding part of our interview, we talk about his latest book in his Posthumans series, "Becoming a Butterfly," and European and global economic structures for sustaining technological evolution.

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Tony Czarnecki is a futurist and a Managing Partner of Sustensis, London – a Think Tank for inspirations for Humanity's transition to coexistence with superintelligence – the final form of an ever faster and more intelligent, self-learning and perhaps even conscious Artificial Intelligence. Tony is the author of several books on the subject of Superintelligence.

In this first part of our interview, we talk about his latest book in his Posthumans series, "Becoming a Butterfly," and discuss the pandemic and what's next.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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What does it look like to be on the front lines of academic research into making future AI safe? It looks like Roman Yampolskiy, professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, director of their Cyber Security lab and key contributor to the field of AI Safety. With over 100 papers and books on AI, Roman is recognized as an AI expert the world over.

In this second part of our interview, we talk about his latest paper: a comprehensive analysis of the Control Problem, the central issue of AI safety: How do we ensure future AI remains under our control? We also discuss the current limitations of AI and how AI may evolve.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .

What does it look like to be on the front lines of academic research into making future AI safe? It looks like Roman Yampolskiy, professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, director of their Cyber Security lab and key contributor to the field of AI Safety. With over 100 papers and books on AI, Roman is recognized as an AI expert the world over.

In this first part of our interview, we talk about his latest paper, a comprehensive analysis of the Control Problem, the central issue of AI safety: How do we ensure future AI remains under our control?

All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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How will we keep our current and future artificial intelligences ethically aligned with human preferences? Who do we need to help with that? Answer: A philosopher of the use of emerging cognitive technologies. Karina Vold is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and has recently come from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She thinks, writes, and speaks about the the evolution of #AI from a philosopher's perspective. In the second half of this interview we learn about value alignment, the Trolley Problem, and just what those institutes do about AI.  Ever wondered whether you could make a living as a philosopher? Karina will tell you how she has.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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How will we keep our current and future artificial intelligences ethically aligned with human preferences? Who do we need to help with that? Answer: A philosopher of the use of emerging cognitive technologies. Karina Vold is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and has recently come from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She thinks, writes, and speaks about the the evolution of AI from a philosopher's perspective. In this interview we learn about the Philosophy of Mind, the Extended Mind Hypothesis - and find out who Otto and Inga are. Ever wondered whether you could make a living as a philosopher? Karina will tell you how she has.

All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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Have you seen a robot help a troubled child? This week's guest makes one. This is part 2 of the interview with Paolo Pirjanian, who is the former CTO of iRobot and early leader in the field of consumer robotics with 16+ years of experience developing and commercializing cutting-edge home robots. He led world-class teams and companies at iRobot®, Evolution Robotics®, and others.  In 2016, Paolo founded Embodied, Inc. with the vision to build socially and emotionally intelligent companions that improve care and wellness and enhance our daily lives. We will learn more about how Moxie the robot works, what it can do, and Paolo's plans for future robots.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .

Have you seen a robot help a troubled child? This week's guest makes one. Paolo Pirjanian is the former CTO of iRobot and early leader in the field of consumer robotics with 16+ years of experience developing and commercializing cutting-edge home robots. He led world-class teams and companies at iRobot®, Evolution Robotics®, and others.  In 2016, Paolo founded Embodied, Inc. with the vision to build socially and emotionally intelligent companions that improve care and wellness and enhance our daily lives.

All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .

We’ve spent all this time talking about artificial intelligence and we know what ‘artificial’ means, but what is ‘intelligence’? Who better to answer that than the International Supervisory Psychologist of Mensa, Kristóf Kovács? He is a senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University researching cognitive psychology and psychometrics.

Most people are content to define 'intelligence' as 'that which an IQ score measures', - but what if it's your job to write the IQ test? To validate those tests? To know what they mean? How can we know what artificial intelligence is until we understand the real thing? Find out more in this episode, when we also talk about what IQ tests are measuring and how to interpret them, what Mensa does, and Kristóf's research into the g-factor of intelligence.

All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines and a description of my upcoming continuing studies course at the University of Victoria on the same theme as this podcast, which is open to online enrollment from all over the world; register at https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou.

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.