• Elon Musk and DeepMind Sign Pledge to Not Use AI for Nefarious Reasons

    Elon Musk and DeepMind Sign Pledge to Not Use AI for Nefarious Reasons

    We have joked on here about Elon Musk and the robot uprising.  But the truth is, there is the possibility for technology to be used in a nefarious way.  What that is, or what that will actually look like is anyone’s guess. I think the fear is that there are a lot of bad people…

  • Google’s DeepMind Achieves Machine Learning Breakthroughs, Which is Terrifying

    Google’s DeepMind Achieves Machine Learning Breakthroughs, Which is Terrifying

    I wrote an article last week about the AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero “robots” that used machine learning to beat humans in Go.  But I want to explore the technology behind what made all of that possible.  If you want to read more about that particular battle, check out my previous post.  Google is making progress…