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Good article by Lance Ng. How intelligent is AI? Well, not too intelligent. And far, far away from general AI (AGI).

What Microsoft and Google Are Not Telling You About Their A.I. | IT News Most A.I. companies reveal very little about their algorithms in the name of intellectual property protection. How much of A.I. is “artificial,” and how much is manual labor?

What must a general intelligence be able to do? By Anthony Repetto. Recognition, hypothesis testing, imagination, recall, analogy and implication, are only some of the properties we should hope for in a general intelligence.

Criteria for Artificial General Intelligence – Towards Data Science What must a general intelligence be able to do?

The technology that deserves our vigilance before “creepy” creeps into “dangerous”
by The technology that deserves our vigilance before “creepy” creeps into “dangerous”
by Ruth Reader - . And yes: AI is very, very dangerous.

9 Innovations Creeping Us Out in 2019 – Fast Company – Medium The technology that deserves our vigilance before “creepy” creeps into “dangerous”

Capitalism in the code. The politics of corporate and computational identity become the poloitcs of the new era.

AI Thinks Like a Corporation — and That’s Worrying – The Economist – | IT News Artificial intelligence was born of organisational decision-making and state power; it needs human ethics, says Jonnie Penn of the University of Cambridge.

Good explanation of Duvenaud's ODE principle. Discrete steps versus continious and possible endless variations.

A Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI | IT News Researchers borrowed equations from calculus to redesign the core machinery of deep learning so it can model continuous processes like changes in health

We've been warned. Over and over. But no one listens.

How to Prepare for the AI Apocalypse – AI’s Dirty Little Secret – | IT News “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.” — Stephen Hawking

Fact or fiction?

Read Jonas Jonassons

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
It will surpirse you how accurate it is.

The Age of the Troll – | IT News As I reflect on 2018, a thought keeps occurring to me. History will probably regard this as the age of the troll. Not just this year — maybe this whole decade. It was a time when the world got…

I think we should prevent this from happening and just quit Facebook (and other social media).

Facebook’s Plan To Swallow The Whole Internet – Fast Company – | IT News Over the past few years, the Facebook feed has become a reviled part of pop culture–a symbol of everything people complain about when they think of the company, from opaque algorithms to political…

Indeed, a lot of misunderstanding. (indeed, only an unconditional basicincome) is what is needed to solve the problems we are facing and are now leading to protests all over the world (France for instance).

What People Get Most Wrong About Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) There’s a lot of misinformation out there about the idea of basic income (UBI). This article is meant to correct what people get most…