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Beyond Dreams of AGI

Humans are incredibly good at anthropomorphizing all manner of entities. Even very young children attribute human character and capacities to pets, stuffed animals, and inanimate objects. Adults attribute gender and related human characteristics to ships, […]

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Protecting Neural Data

Writing in PC Magazine, Kate Irwin reports that California has updated its Consumer Privacy Protection Act to include neural data as a type of protected personal data. With the growth of applications that collect brain […]

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Racism In, Racism Out

Because the dominant contemporary approaches to artificial intelligence take an inductive approach, they represent less of a radical departure in human thought and more of an acceleration or super charging of it. Thus, it should […]

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Cash and Data

Reporting for ABC News, Nicola Heath, Laura Heaton, and Marc Fennell discuss the issues surrounding the transition away from the use of cash in Australia. They note the dramatic reduction in the percentage of transactions […]