[NEWS] Five links on artificial intelligence (#artificialintelligence, #ai)

[rfmcdonald]

• Jessica Riskin at the Public Domain Review explores the automata, the pre-Babbage mechanical creations that were humanity's first effort at artificial intelligence.


• Katrina Onstad at Toronto Life profiles Gregory Hinton, the Toronto AI researcher who pushed the idea of neural networks--ancestor to modern-day deep learning--into the mainstream of AI research.


• Reverse-engineering the workings of the human brain would be a good way to learn how to build durable AIs. Wired makes the case.


• The Economist notes one central problem with modern AI is its inscrutability to outside scrutiny. How can the workings of an AI be shown, made visible?


• Gizmodo notes a report on AI warning that, without adequate regulation and preparation, artificial intelligence could have a destabilizing, even strongly negative, impact on the world of the imaginable future.