Archive for May, 2019
Tom Chivers – The AI does not hate you
Posted by Alice in Skeptics in the Pub on May 16, 2019
When: Thursday, June 20th 2019, 7.30 – 11.00 PM
Where: The Casa Bar, 29 Hope Street
A DEEP-DIVE INTO THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
‘The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else’
This is a book about AI and AI risk. But it’s also more importantly about a community of people who are trying to think rationally about intelligence, and the places that these thoughts are taking them, and what insight they can and can’t give us about the future of the human race over the next few years. It explains why these people are worried, why they might be right, and why they might be wrong. It is a book about the cutting edge of our thinking on intelligence and rationality right now by the people who stay up all night worrying abou
t it.
Along the way, we discover why we probably don’t need to worry about a future AI resurrecting a perfect copy of our minds and torturing us for not inventing it sooner, but we perhaps should be concerned about paperclips destroying life as we know it; how Mickey Mouse can teach us an important lesson about how to program AI; and how a more rational approach to life could be what saves us all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tom Chivers was BuzzFeed UK’s science writer between 2015 and 2018. Before joining BuzzFeed, he spent seven years at the Telegraph, where he once interviewed Terry Pratchett and was told he was ‘far too nice to be a journalist’. He has struggled on despite this handicap, winning a British Health Journalism award and an American Psychological Society media award, being shortlisted for an Association of British Science Writers award and being highly commended in the Royal Statistical Society’s annual journalism prizes. He tweets @TomChivers.
‘Beautifully written, and with wonderful humour, this is a thrilling adventure story of our own future’
Lewis Dartnell author of The Knowledge and Origins
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Skeptics with a K: Episode #250
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on May 16, 2019
Pokémon brains, caffeine power, vaccine denial, and solar cells. Plus nana-wire, birthdays, weasel words, and red wine. Trying not to make a fuss, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:21 — 44.4MB)
Skeptics with a K: Episode #249
Posted by Mike in Podcast, Skeptics with a K on May 2, 2019
Horse chiropractic, tectonic plates, scouting with tanks, and acupuncture anaesthesia. Plus the Palace of Versailles, Dalekmania, regeneration, and creepy crawling babies. Just as good on Street View, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:22:39 — 47.4MB)