What Are Reasonable AI Fears?
Although there are some valid concerns, an AI moratorium would be misguided.
Robin Hanson
· 13 min read
AI
A collection of 55 posts
AI and the Transformation of the Human Spirit
The first stage of grief is denial, but despair is also misplaced.
Steven D. Hales
· 13 min read
ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
The Case Against the Case Against AI
AI only knows what is in the data. The unfortunate use of the term “learning” is a simple, but potent, source of confusion and apprehension.
Peter L. Levin
· 9 min read
The Peculiar Economics of 3D Printing
Most new technologies, when they are launched, arrive with a lot of hype. While 3D printing fits the business model for customized products, it is not yet cost effective in a commercial manufacturing sector which requires mass production.
Randall Mayes
· 10 min read
Autonomous Vehicles: Hype or Reality?
AVs are essentially robots with the same requirements as human-driven vehicles—driving and parking skills, the ability to communicate with other cars and the infrastructure, navigation skills, and access to a source of energy.
Randall Mayes
· 14 min read
The White of the AI
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence
It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.
Pedro Domingos
· 12 min read
The Human Skills AI Can't Replace
Today’s inductive AI can only solve problems in the narrow problem space we predefine.
William J. Littlefield II
· 10 min read
Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race
China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms.
Craig Smith
· 5 min read