Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-charles-babbage-and-the-turk

The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech

Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/

Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI

Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated? — Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/3/27/why-is-ai-art-copyright-so-complicated

Band name of the day: ai murder policy

AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms

Years later, Façade’s groundbreaking AI lives on through bad YouTube jokes | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/13-years-later-facades-groundbreaking-ai-lives-on-through-bad-youtube-jokes/

It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues

An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI – Rodney Brooks http://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/

We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/

Another take on the ‘user agent’: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/

How should we evaluate progress in AI? | Meaningness https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress

We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/

The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/20/the-truth-about-ai-a-secular-ghost-story/

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Reidl on that export control on AI tech I talked about a couple weeks ago: https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/us-export-control-of-artificial-intelligence-research-considered-harmful-fb2986fb3f14

I Forced an AI to Watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians · Issue #33 · NaNoGenMo/2018 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/issues/33#issuecomment-443401950

BAN.AI Public Access Multics https://ban.ai/multics/

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: 😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness https://github.com/daviddao/awful-ai

This Artist’s Personalized AI Horror Movie Is Messing With His Head https://breakermag.com/kevin-aboschs-is-being-manipulated-by-his-own-ai/

AI and the Trolley Problem | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/10/17/ai-and-the-trolley-problem-pat-cadigan/

Mailbag: AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/10/16/mailbag-ai-research-on-dialogue-and-story-generation/

Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968 | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/dan-mcquillan/rethinking-ai-through-politics-of-1968

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

Hot take: disambiguation in symbolic AI is probably a mistake, & we’d be better off with systems that pun uncontrollably because they operate on the locus of concepts rather than on their boundaries. You know, like a person.

Anatomy of an AI System https://anatomyof.ai/

What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

Letting neural networks be weird — This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways. http://aiweirdness.com/post/177091486527/this-ai-is-bad-at-drawing-but-will-try-anyways/amp

The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller

Hot take: the ‘with AI’ part of the ‘Making X do Y with AI’ is redundant when X is a computing device and Y is a task associated with intelligence, since anything doing that would be called AI

George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/13/17561484/george-hotz-comma-ai-self-driving-car-scam-diy-kit

The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI | Document Journal http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/04/the-existential-paranoia-fueling-elon-musks-fear-of-ai/

The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing http://thequietus.com/articles/24629-lil-miquela-poppy-ai-pop-stars

Ask An Ice Cream Professional: AI-generated ice cream flavors https://kottke.org/18/05/ask-an-ice-cream-professional-ai-generated-ice-cream-flavors

What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict

How to Write Personalities for the AI Around Us https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/how-to-write-personalities-for-the-ai-around-us/

Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220

Multics https://ban.ai/multics/

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-dragons-not-chess-and-go-why-ai-needs-roleplay

What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county

Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/

SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/

Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a… https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html