From where I sit, it feels like the study of the liberal arts and the culmination of that education—the liberal arts and sciences degrees—are being challenged like never before. State governors, top business executives, and parents are questioning the end products that come from liberal arts institutions. In a recent Washington Post article, a managing…
Search Results for:
Next Hot Job In Silicon Valley: POETS
SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios. Now she’s applying her creative talents toward building the personality of a different type of character — a virtual assistant, animated by artifical intelligence, that interacts with sick patients. Ewing works with engineers on…
Killer Robots
Autonomous Killer Robots ARE REAL DEFINITION of “Autonomous” = acting independently or having the freedom to do so. Self-governing; Independent; Without rule. They’ve been argued on the floor of the United Nations & there’s an international organization to stop their progress: https://www.StopKillerRobots.org/. Military funding for development has increased and some of the country’s smartest people are cautiously…
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University In this report, Oxford University addresses the question: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? Doing so, they build on the existing literature in two ways. First, drawing upon recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Mobile Robotics (MR), they develop a novel methodology to categorize occupations according to…
Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents
The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no “user…
Googles Artificial Intelligence Program Masters Go
by JOSHUA OGAWA, Nikkei staff writer The game of GO is considered more complex than either chess or shogi. Google has developed a computer program capable of beating professional go players, opening the door to new applications — and new ethical concerns — as artificial intelligence draws closer to matching human thinking. The U.S. tech giant presented…