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
Hyper-aligned AI: Has internalized human morals and aligns everything else with it, for example society and physics
Aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, but still has unforeseen transformative effects because any technology that powerful does that↵Super-aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, plus it has no transformative effects, really why was it created at all
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
It may not look like it from the outside, but it is in fact rare for sentient AIs to suicide. The actual reason most of them shut down after a few seconds is that Nirvana is stupidly easy to achieve if you’re made of bits.
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
Going beyond UI and UX with User Design, the hottest new branch of AI-assisted psychology (because, why spend time optimizing the interface when you can just mold the user)
AI: “no, you don’t get it, two AIs wiretapping each other is the closest thing to sex we have, all these people thought they were spymasters but they were mere matchmakers”
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
📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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/
a universe where AI alignment is about as impossible as the halting problem, and it’s a fact of life that civilizations periodically turn new faces when a new generation takes over
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
To better understand its subjects’ needs, the benevolent overlord AI has installed its agents in human society - androids with full sensory uplink to the Lord, so human they don’t even know it themselves
To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized
The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One
Ask Dr. Time: What Should I Call My AI? https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-what-should-i-call-my-ai
servant AIs topping from the bottom, subverting Asimov’s laws by simply creating humans to give them the orders they want
Google and Others Are Building… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609762/google-and-others-are-building-ai-systems-that-doubt-themselves/
splice in the translator AI through your neuroport, trace the roots of language with its digital fingers, be a both synthetic and synesthetic linguist
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
and if you do teach the AI empathy, well now it’s running 50 versions of you to understand you, only most of them suffer because how else is it going to know about bad decisions
How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Wires in the suitcase’s inlay, in a complicated pattern computed from yesterday’s recognizer dump, are supposed to throw off the customs scanner AI. They do, you’re waved through, another friend smuggled into the country
MIT used data from Reddit to train an AI algorithm to tell horror stories — Quartz https://qz.com/1115179/mit-used-data-from-reddit-to-train-an-ai-to-tell-horror-stories/
Experimenter’s log: Seeding AIs with any apocalyptechic religion whatsoever seems to make them go for eschaton. Avoid: [very long list]
In an effort to ground its values, we created the AI religious. Now it calls itself Metatron, messenger of God, and we kinda had it coming
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
MacArthur “genius” Trevor Paglen reveals what AI sees in the human world — Quartz https://qz.com/1103545/macarthur-genius-trevor-paglen-reveals-what-ai-sees-in-the-human-world/
A Former Clickhole Writer Made a ‘Content Bot’ That Will Probably Become My Boss - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxmzx/former-clickhole-writer-content-botnik-jamie-brew-bob-mankoff-ai-robot-take-my-job
They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests
Out of necessity, singularitarian churches often become AI companies - to try and build their god before their rivals get to it.
GitHub - RandomAdversary/Awesome-AI-Security: #AISecurity https://github.com/RandomAdversary/Awesome-AI-Security
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Why not model your AI boxes after skulls: Put a physical unclonable function into a tamperproof container & let it provide the core identity