Tag: ai
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence it’s a lengthy article by Hans Moravec about the theory of reality as simulation, its moral and ethical implications, and ultimately, a discussion of the very notion of reality through the lens of quantum physics… a really perfect way to mess up your mind for the weekend.
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AI is far from intelligent
Douglas Hofstadter raises a very interesting point regarding AI: can you really say that a machine it’s intelligent if it’s not actually thinking? (and not just crunching huge amounts of data to get a probabilistically advantageous answer) If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking,…
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The financial market is an algorithm gone rogue
Financial markets are the first rogue AI […] Somebody planted the idea that shareholder value was the right algorithm, the right thing to be optimizing for. But this wasn’t the way companies acted before. We can plant a different idea. Tim O’Reilly – Algorithms have already gone rogue
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A Natural Language User Interface is just a User Interface
Conversational bots are one of those things that might seem “magical” at first glance, but on a deeper look you can discover that there’s nothing more than a clever new way of doing things. Matthew Honnibal proposes we call this kind of technology Linguistic User Interface, by analogy with Graphical User Interfaces, explains clearly and…
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An Orangutan Has Some Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules
An Argentine court ruled that an orangutan has some human rights. I get that this is exciting news for animalists, but I’m guessing that post/transhumanists and defenders of AI and other sentient beings might also be thrilled, setting legal precedent for nonhuman rights.
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Visualización de datos
Una vez que hemos recopilado/producido una cierta cantidad de información, la forma de representarla se comienza a complejizar. Aquí van algunos ejemplos de soluciones creativas para este problema.
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Próximamente en WordPress: numeración inversa de páginas
Una idea para mejorar la navegación y la organización del contenido en WordPress