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Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

This is a linkpost for http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

Request for help with economic analysis related to AI forecasting

[Cross-posted from FB] I've got an economic question that I'm not sure how to answer. I've been thinking about trends in AI development,

[Link] AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning

DeepMind's go AI, called AlphaGo, has beaten the European champion with a score of 5-0. A match against top ranked human, Lee Se-dol, is sch

[LINK] Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours

Lai has created an artificial intelligence machine called Giraffe that has taught itself to play chess by evaluating positions much more lik

[Link] First almost fully-formed human [foetus] brain grown in lab, researchers claim

This seems significant: An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State U

[Link] Neural networks trained on expert Go games have just made a major leap

From the arXiv: Move Evaluation in Go Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Chris J. Maddison, Aja Huang, Ilya Sutskever, David Silv

[LINK] Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness

I found this theory pretty interesting, and it reminded me of Gary Drescher's explanation of consciousness in Good and Real: How the ligh

[LINK] Well-written article on the Future of Humanity Institute and Existential Risk

This introduction to the concept of existential risk is perhaps the best such article I've read targeted at a general audience. It manages

The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology

Those concerned about existential risks may be interested to learn that, as of last September, the National Science Foundation is funding a