Sometimes the world tells you things. You just need to pay attention and figure out what you’re being told. <\/p>\n
This is not the paranoid schizophrenic line: “the voices on TV, they’re actually talking to me!” This is the observation that in the sea of stimulus I receive, some patterns jump out at me. One possibility is that this is nothing more than my subconscious writ large. Selection bias working such that I notice what’s already on my mind. I’m willing to accept that, because from my point of view, the whole world conspires to let me understand what I’m thinking about. It’s a cool system.<\/p>\n
This month, I’m thinking about when we’re going to see the first nonhuman intelligence. The first AI. I’m reading The Singularity is Near<\/a> by Kurzweil. I’m also watching my way through Galactica, in which machines try to kill us all. Yesterday, capital_l<\/a> pointed me to this note<\/a> which alludes to the idea that Google’s media project (in which they’re scanning the contents of several libraries) is not intended for a human to read, but for an AI. It raised the question of where we are most likely to encounter the first machine intelligences.<\/p>\n So, where are our machine overlords going to come from? Here’s my list of guesses:<\/p>\n * Google \/ The Internet Sometimes the world tells you things. You just need to pay attention and figure out what you’re being told. <\/p>\n This is not the paranoid schizophrenic line: “the voices on TV, they’re actually talking to me!” This is the observation that in the sea of stimulus I receive, some patterns jump out at me. One . . . → Read More: AI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Secret government project
\n* Computer games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"