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[31 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

Two days ago, I went to watch the movie Avatar.
I thought the plot was quite blend, but that was soon forgotten when I started to see the linkage between the idea of singularity and the movie’s storyline.
For those of you who are new to the idea of singularity the following paragraph is my attempt to describe it to you using my limited knowledge of the topic:
Key promoters of the theory/science – also called apocalyptic AI – are Ray Kurzweil and Hans Moravec. Their singularity argument is that machine intelligence will …

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[22 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]

Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University, and Agata Sagan, a Warsaw based ethicist [REF: Accelerating Future], discussed roboethics at the Project Syndicate website.
I wouldn’t say the contents of the article is terribly new, but still worth blogging about – for those Peter Singer readers.
Access Full Article Here: Project Syndicate-Rights for Robots?.
For the moment, a more realistic concern is not that robots will harm us, but that we will harm them. At present, robots are mere items of property. But what if they become sufficiently complex to have …