Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines?

Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines?

For each of the 12 days of Christmas, here’s something to beguile, distract – and leave you with questions for the year ahead Consciousness was on our minds this year. It was definitely on mine. Twice, on transcontinental flights, I watched Ex Machina, a thriller about artificial intelligence (AI). It was a disturbing movie to watch in the mind-altering confines of a flying machine. In January 2015, Bill Gates joined the chorus of high-profile names  – including billionaire Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking – who have voiced concerns that machine intelligence will eventually threaten humanity. If you have any doubts about the role of machine intelligence in our lives, look around: online services from Google to Netflix to Amazon are all using it to learn about our habits and…


Link to Full Article: Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines?