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
The difficult part of sentient-AI ethics is not whether to grant the AIs human rights, but what to do with humans who are clearly dumber than the AIs
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/
being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb
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
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/