These are prototypes of military robots. It’s awesome what they can do in robotics today but I don’t really like the consequences.

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The world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik lost a six-game chess match against Deep Fritz 4 games to 2.
I think computers are better than humans in playing chess now. So what, no fun anymore! – Let computers do some more useful things, like keeping the household or washing our clothes … or writing software (what one [...]

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“We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,” explained one of my hosts after my talk. “We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”

Das bei Siggi Becker gelesen und jetzt irgendwie keine Lust zu schlafen. Kölsch trinke ich nicht, vielleicht einen Absinth

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Once nonbiological intelligence gets a foothold in our brains, it will grow exponentially. As we get to the 2030s, human beings will have biological brains enhanced with more powerful nonbiological thought processes.

Ray Kurzweil denkt und erfindet eine – zwar spannende – aber auch düstere Zukunft für die Spezies Homo. Er könnte in mancher Hinsicht sogar [...]

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