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Jan 12, 2023

AI won’t be conscious, and here is why (A reply to Susan Schneider)

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If you watched the debate live, you know that, at the very end, I wanted to reply to a point made by Susan but couldn’t, since we ran out of time. The goal of this essay is to put my reply on the record in writing, so to take it out of my system. Before I do that, however, I need to give some context to those who didn’t watch the debate live and don’t have a subscription to the IAI to watch it before reading this essay. If you did watch the debate, you can skip ahead to the section ‘My missing reply.

Context

In a nutshell, my position is that we have no reason to believe that silicon computers will ever become conscious. I cannot refute the hypothesis categorically, but then again, I cannot categorically refute the hypothesis of the Flying Spaghetti Monster either, as the latter is logically coherent. Appeals to logical coherence mean as little in the conscious AI debate as they do in the Flying Spaghetti Monster context. The important point is not what is logically coherent or what can be categorically refuted, but what hypothesis we have good reasons to entertain.

Jan 11, 2023

‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word

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The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a host of difficult questions.

Jan 11, 2023

Reactions as First Robot Lawyer Sets for Launching, To Appear in Court Next Month

Posted by in categories: business, internet, law, robotics/AI

The AI company has earlier created something similar earlier, they have in the past used AI-generated form letters and chatbots to help secure and recovers people’s fund for onboarding wifi that failed to work.

Many people have reacted to this new innovation citing that it may be injurious to lawyers’ legal business, particularly lawyers who have no knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Jan 11, 2023

Meet the Finalists of the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Introducing the 15 finalist teams who are developing physical avatar systems to make human telepresence and interaction possible across the globe. From performing life changing operations, caretaking, disaster relief, or simply bridging the distance for social connection, these robotic avatars will allow us to expand our physical reach and evolve the way we communicate and interact remotely. Learn more about next phase of the $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE https://www.xprize.org/prizes/avatar/articles/ana-avatar-xpr…-finalists.

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Jan 11, 2023

Open-Sourcing And Accelerating Precision Health Of The Future: Progress, Potential and Possibilities Podcast episode

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, information science, robotics/AI

Simon Waslander is the Director of Collaboration, at the CureDAO Alliance for the Acceleration of Clinical Research (https://www.curedao.org/), a community-owned platform for the precision health of the future.

CureDAO is creating an open-source platform to discover how millions of factors, like foods, drugs, and supplements affect human health, within a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), making suffering optional through the creation of a “WordPress of health data”.

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Jan 11, 2023

Tesla Safety Report Returns: Autopilot Gets Better And Better

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The number of accidents is massively lower than the US average.


Tesla recently released a new version of its Vehicle Safety Report, after about a year of silence, providing interesting new data.

Jan 11, 2023

Alphabet X graduates robotic agtech firm Mineral

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability

A little over two years after its public debut, Mineral is becoming its own Alphabet company. The team, which was formerly known as the “Computational Agriculture Project” (no prizes for guessing why they adopted the new name), just graduated from the X “moonshot” labs.

“After five years incubating our technology at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Mineral is now an Alphabet company,” CEO Elliott Grant said in a blog post. “Our mission is to help scale sustainable agriculture. We’re doing this by developing a platform and tools that help gather, organize, and understand never-before known or understood information about the plant world — and make it useful and actionable.”

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Jan 11, 2023

Booming AI under the knife: Tech layoffs slay 20% of popular startup’s workforce

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The recent announcement of Scale AI layoffs has served as a reminder that even the most promising startups and IT giants are not immune to the problems of the collapsing tech market as the artificial intelligence (AI) industry continues to grow.

Despite having a CEO heralded as “the next Zuckerberg” and a $7 billion valuation, Scale AI announced the “hardest change” – the layoff of 20 percent of its 700-person workforce on Monday in a blog post.

Jan 11, 2023

Mercedes Benz to become the first to offer Level 3 autonomous driving in the US

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

The German carmaker has received approval in Nevada, with California next on the list.

The German automaker, Mercedes Benz, is set to become the first to offer Level 3 autonomous driving technology in the US with approvals for its Drive Pilot system in Nevada, followed by California. The announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023, showcasing a host of new technology.


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Jan 11, 2023

How The New AI ChatGPT Can Help Leaders Make Time To Be Human

Posted by in categories: business, employment, robotics/AI

In the last week, I’ve been experimenting with the hot new version of ChatGPT to discover how it might conserve a leader’s scarcest resource: time. When OpenAI launched the AI chatbot at the end of November, it instantly attracted millions of users, with breathless predictions of its potential to disrupt business models and jobs.

It certainly promises to deliver on a prediction I made in 2019 in my book The Human Edge, which explores the skills needed in a world of artificial intelligence and digitization. I forecasted: “…AI can offer us more free time by automating the stupid stuff we currently have to do, thereby reducing our cognitive burden.”


This new chatbot can help time-poor managers by writing emails and talking points — but also in delivering complex tasks like HR performance reviews.

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