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Narratives, Values & Progress – Anders Sandberg

ByAdam Ford 2016-09-282016-09-28

Anders Sandberg discusses ideas & values and where we get them from, mindsets for progress, and that we are living in a unique era of technological change but also, importantly we are aware that we are living in an era of great change. Is there a direction in ethics? Is morality real? If so, how…

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Vernor Vinge on the Turing Test, Artificial Intelligence

ByAdam Ford 2015-10-272016-03-07

On the coat-tails of a the blockbuster film “The Imitation Game” I saw quite a bit of buzz on the internet about Alan Turing, and the Turing Test. The title of the movie refers to the idea of the Turing Test may someday show that machines would ostensibly be (at least in controlled circumstances) indistinguishable…