Matthew Hutson
What, me worry? The era of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is rapidly approaching — when ‘fake people’ will outthink humans
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it? ...
What are the chances that we’ll get a universal flu vaccine?
In truth, we’re never fully ready for the flu. We know it’s coming, like the first fall leaf, and yet ...
Viewpoint: What should we do when Artificial Intelligence crosses ethical lines?
A few years ago, a number of A.I.-research organizations began to develop systems for addressing ethical impact, [including] the Association ...
Can computers develop human-like intelligence by imitating our own evolutionary path?
Evolutionary algorithms have been around for a long time. Traditionally, they’ve been used to solve specific problems. In each generation, ...
Neuroevolution: Artificial intelligence learns by adapting and evolving
[An] old idea—improving neural networks not through teaching, but through evolution—is revealing its potential. Five new papers from Uber in San Francisco, California, ...