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why you just can’t black box an a.i.
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why you just can’t black box an a.i.

AI enthusiasts love to write about machines as black boxes with inputs and outputs because they don't know how they would actually be built.

how a russian media mogul pulled a kurzweil
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how a russian media mogul pulled a kurzweil

A Russian mogul's PR firm is talking to bloggers about his plan to fast-track The Singularity.

looking for a ghost in the machine, redux
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looking for a ghost in the machine, redux

Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.