Robot Got Your Job! Will Every Human Soon Be Unemployed?
~ From stone axes to computer-generated fluid-dynamics modeling, tools have always functioned as devices created to help people do their work more easily. Now, intelligent...
Synthetic Doom #1 is Now Available
~ It is finally becoming clear just what the true purpose of Man could very well turn out to be: to usher in the next...
An Entirely New Species of Life?
TEXT + AUDIO The central technology sweeping the world today from which all other types of advanced technologies will be amplified to potentially dangerous...
Is Technology Going to Become Totalitarianism’s Greatest Gift?
Well, truthfully, it already is. And it looks from every indication that it’s only going to get worse. Countries such as China, Russia, North Korea,...
Why Synthetic Doom?
Synthetic doom? Really? Is that what’s about to happen to us? Yes, I’ll admit ‘Synthetic Doom’ is a rather dramatic name for this new short-book...
Impossible to Answer Questions About Consciousness
When we consider machine intelligence, one of the still unanswerable big questions that creeps people out is the idea that at some point these machines...
The Promise and Peril of the Universal Basic Income
Providing citizens with an unconditional automatic income, trending lately as the Universal Basic Income or UBI, as a means of mitigating possible social collapse due...
Artificial Intelligence Unleashed: The Contrast Between Hard Programming and Machine Learning
During the past several decades, “classical” artificial intelligence systems have been mostly stuck in place in terms of their practical advancement. That’s because they relied...
The Tantalizing Cognitive Property of Substrate Independence
One of the most fascinating concepts circulating throughout the computer science world when it comes to human consciousness and artificial intelligence alike is the growing...
Will the Emotional Chasm Between Humans and Synthetics Be a Deal Breaker?
I cannot tell you how much joy I’ve experienced making my son laugh when he was a youngster. He would grab the remote for the...
Real Enough To Love: Will Sexbots Destroy Human Relationships?
My oh my, how times have shuffled along from the quaint old days of Playboy, Hustler and VHS porno tapes, haven’t they? Whether you were...
The Accelerating Communication Skills of Artificial Intelligence
As we steadily emerge from what has been called the “AI winter” — a ‘no-man’s-land’ of stalled or delayed progress that the field of machine...