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George Dvorsky decided to try some myth-busting about the future of AI and the nature of the technology. The end result needs a lot of myth-busting of its own...
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The bad news is that we can't wipe offensive speech and trolls off the web. The good news is that trolls tend to turn on each other quickly.
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If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.
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Tracking what's happening inside a biological system on a computer is not the same thing as recreating that system.
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An AI far smarter than any human may want to have no contact with us. Unfortunately, it won't have a choice in the matter.
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Tech companies are having a lot of trouble recruiting and keeping skilled coders, and the advice floating around the web is not helping them at all.
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Just because you can write an app without going to college, don't discount the value of a degree if you decide to seriously pursue computer science.
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When thinking about AI, we often focus on human analogs. But what if we consider a non-human intelligence for a change?
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A new set of chips shows a lot of promise in drastically reducing the vast amount of energy used by artificial neural networks.
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Tech pundits keep pitching anatomically correct robots built to be interactive sex toys as a solution for many societal woes despite a lot of red flags that it won't work.