AI Anxiety Must Come to an

Credit Agricole CEO Says AI Anxiety Must Come to an End

Credit Agricole CEO Says AI Anxiety Must Come to an End Credit Agricole SA Chief Executive Officer Olivier Gavalda is trying to temper worries related to artificial intelligence in the banking sector, as many executives have said implementing such technology will lead to workforce reductions. “We must put an end to this anxiety-inducing opposition between humans and AI, as we heard these past few weeks,” Gavalda said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is the combination of the two...

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: Pope Leo sees the AI age clearly — and warns we must save our souls

Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae covers a variety of themes, both theological and anthropological, and has proved to be remarkably prophetic, and yet it is still, in the minds of most people, simply the "birth control" encyclical. Similarly, Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ ranges across a number of topics and provides a trenchant analysis of the philosophy that dominates the modern world, and yet, for most, it is simply the "global warming" encyclical. I am a bit...

Policy on the AI Exponential

Policy on the AI Exponential In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello to another tree, so getting him and his peers to act fast enough is nearly impossible.

Commentary: What if AI retraining is just a comforting lie?

Commentary: What if AI retraining is just a comforting lie? If upskilling is being touted as the bridge to an AI future, it must lead somewhere, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg Opinion. No one knows whether artificial intelligence will trigger a white-collar jobpocalypse.

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)

This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2016, at Web Camp Zagreb [video] (45 mins) SuperintelligenceThe Idea That Eats Smart People | | | In 1945, as American physicists were preparing to test the atomic bomb, it occurred to someone to ask if such a test could set the atmosphere on fire. This was a legitimate concern.

Europe’s fight to stay in the AI race

Europe’s fight to stay in the AI race This week’s special edition of Talking Europe asks whether the EU is ready for the disruption that comes with Artificial Intelligence. It is the most important technological revolution of the century, and is set to impact every aspect of our lives. To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.

Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers

On its surface, the national revolt against data centers seems simple: They are a nuisance, and people do not want them in their proverbial backyards. But I haven’t been able to let go of the idea that there must be something much deeper driving the backlash against them, and few other subjects have confounded me more than trying to figure out what to think about it. Americans don’t know how to fight AI.

A Book I Wish I’d Read at 22

The big Hapus crisis: How climate shocks are threatening India's iconic Alphonso mango

There was a time when the arrival of Alphonso mangoes felt as predictable as summer itself. Every year, as temperatures climbed and school holidays began, crates of the golden fruit would start appearing in markets across the country. For many families, Alphonso mangoes were more than a seasonal indulgence.

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting

Human-like Neural Nets by Catapulting Speculative proposal to create artificial neural nets with human-like performance by high-learning-rate/regularization training of overparameterized NNs to trigger catapulting/grokking. Over-parameterization as a route to true generalization would resolve many outstanding mysteries of artificial versus natural intelligence. There are many mysteries about deep learning and human intelligence, but we could describe the biggest anomaly this way: why are...