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Greater Minds: Margaret Atwood predicts the Everything Change

Posted on November 11, 2015 by DJ Cockburn — 2 Comments

Margaret Atwood was interviewed for the Center for the Science and Imagination. The author of the Maddaddam trilogy speculates on climate change and the future. The dispute about whether what she writes is science fiction or not persists. She regards…

Greater Minds: Ray Kurzweil predicts the hybridisation of intelligence

Posted on October 14, 2015 by DJ Cockburn — Leave a comment

Ray Kurzweil predicts artificial intelligence will augment human intelligence, leading to hybrid thinking. He anticipates exponential advances in brain science and artificial intelligence. My short story, Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo, looked further into the future when the human mind…

Tagged with: Artificial intelligence, Future, Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo, Ray Kurzweil, Science, science fiction
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Inspirations: The terminator’s coming for my job

Posted on August 19, 2015 by DJ Cockburn — 4 Comments

As robots become more capable, they replace humans in the labour force. In spite of their limitations, they will take over many skilled jobs in the coming decades. Unless they generate more jobs, they will lead to mass unemployment. Employment…

Inspirations: Artificial Intelligence

Posted on April 15, 2015 by DJ Cockburn — Leave a comment

AI has reached the point where it has an impact on society. It may be impossible for a machine to emulate human intelligence, but they can do things that humans can’t. A poorly designed AI that can redesign or replicate…

Tagged with: Alan Turing, Artificial intelligence, Future, Science, science fiction, Turing test
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