"After all, there have already been many different versions of the internet; go back far enough, and the internet is simply part of nature. An elephant’s stomping foot, the clicking of a sperm whale, the chemical signals released into the _...Read More_

I’ve been thinking a lot about how intelligence is a bundle of information that interprets itself and the world through experience, and how “artificial” intelligence is created and becomes independent.

"For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship."

How Can We Build Solidarity With the ‘More-Than-Human’ World? James Bridle, author of Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence, discusses with Tim Smit (Eden Project) and Andrew Kelly (Director, _...Read More_

The fake science that keeps threatening to kill us

Like every kind of intelligence, AI will develop appropriate representations of the world to accomplish what it needs for its various tasks.

"The positions argued against are not nearly as simple as presented. In particular, the argument against true AI being possible on a computer falls foul of many assumptions about what we mean by things like ‘artificial’, ‘intelligence’ or _...Read More_