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Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach by Roman V. Yampolskiy (2016)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. AT AMAZON. Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach 1st Edition by Roman V. Yampolskiy (2016) A day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence [...]
TED | What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom | 27 APRIL 2015
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. TED | What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom | 27 APRIL 2015 TED | How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent [...]
VANITY FAIR. Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Out Humanity. 09 Oct 2014.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. VANITY FAIR. Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Could Wipe Out Humanity. 09 Oct 2014. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE [...]
Stephen Hawking: ‘Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence – but are we taking AI seriously enough?’ 01 MAY 2014
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?' - THE INDEPENDENT - 01 MAY 2014 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Success in creating AI [...]
Wolf Of Wallstreet. Leonardo DiCaprio. Matthew McConaughey. Money? “It’s not real”
Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]
OPINION. The story-of-the-century for all humanity? The spontaneous and uncontrolled emergence of AGI. (in which case, it could be the last story ever told by humans)
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES I. J. Good speculated, 58 years ago, in 1965 that artificial general intelligence might bring about an intelligence explosion: 'Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since [...]
INTELLIGENCE DID NOT TURN OUR WELL FOR CHIMPS. The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) shares over 98.8% the same DNA as Humans (Homo sapiens).
INTELLIGENCE DID NOT TURN OUR WELL FOR CHIMPS. The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) shares over 98.8% the same DNA as Humans (Homo sapiens) - BMC Genomics WWF estimates: In 2023, the Chimpanzee population is estimated at 172,700 to 299,700 In 1900, the Chimpanzee population was estimated at 2,000,000 The current [...]
HISTORY. OCP. The Open Compute Project (2009) was called “Project Freedom”
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that shares designs of data center products and best practices among companies, including ARM, Meta, IBM, Wiwynn, Intel, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Dell, Rackspace, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovoand Alibaba Group.[1][2][3] Project structure[edit] Open Compute V2 Server [...]
“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." --- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I'm afraid that's [...]
“2001: A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick (1968). HAL 9000 Runs Amok and Murders His Crew.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. [...]
Good, I. J. (1966). Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine. Advances in Computers
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Good, I. J. (1966). Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine. Advances in Computers Volume 6, 31–88.doi:10.1016/s0065-2458(08)60418-0 "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual [...]
NORBERT WEINER. 1960. Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. As machines learn they may develop unforeseen strategies at rates that baffle their programmers.
Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. Norbert Wiener (1960) As machines learn they may develop unforeseen strategies at rates that baffle their programmers. Man and Slave. The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great [...]
ALBERT EINSTEIN. Spukhafte Fernwirkungen (“spooky actions at a distance”) 1947. Albert Einstein IQ was estimated at approximately 160. The IQ of GPT-4 is currently (2023) estimated at approximately 150.
ALBERT EINSTEIN. Spukhafte Fernwirkungen (“spooky actions at a distance”). 1947 on Quantum Mechanics... Albert Einstein IQ was estimated at approximately 160. The IQ of GPT-4 is currently (2023) estimated at approximately 150. “I cannot seriously believe in it [Quantum Mechanics] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that [...]
HISTORY. The Hewlett-Packard Garage (1939). The “Birthplace of ‘Silicon Valley'”
HISTORY. The Hewlett-Packard Garage (1939). The "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'" - Wikipedia The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP [now HP and HPE] was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and [...]
THE LOST GENERATION (100 years ago). FITZGERALD: The rich are different from us. HEMMINGWAY: Yes, they have more money. Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris, 1925.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. FITZGERALD: The rich are different from us. HEMMINGWAY: Yes, they have more money. Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris (1925) famously known as "The Lost Generation" were leading members of a group of [...]
Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).
Charles Darwin. (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882). Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a [...]
Pascal’s wager (1669)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Pascal's wager The indifference of the skeptic, Pascal wrote, is to be overcome by means of the “wager”: if God does not exist, the skeptic loses nothing by believing in him; but [...]
Cogito, ergo sum. (“I think, therefore I am.) René Descartes. Discourse on Method (1637)
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Cogito, ergo sum. (“I think, therefore I am.) René Descartes. Discourse on Method (1637) Cogito, ergo sum, (Latin: “I think, therefore I am) dictum coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René [...]
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (Il Principe). 1513.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (Il Principe). 1513. Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. From 1494 to 1512 held an official post at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various [...]
HISTORY. Generative AI (2023). The most important technology since Gutenberg’s Printing Press (1436). Gutenberg Died Penniless. 3 February 1468.
FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Johannes Gutenberg – Wikipedia Described as the “man of the millennium”, Gutenberg is often cited as among the most influential figures in human history. Gutenberg died penniless on 3 February 1468. “Printing is the ultimate gift of God and [...]
GREEK MYTH. PROMETHEUS defied the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and more generally, civilization.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Mary Shelley subtitled to her novel Frankenstein (1818) The Modern Prometheus. Prometheus - Wikipedia In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiəs/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought")[1] is a Titan god of fire.[2] Prometheus [...]