Come with me if you want to live. Science fiction fans know the line all too well. The Terminator is a cybernetic organism of living tissue over metal endoskeleton. In this movie series, our own artificial intelligence becomes self aware, annihilating the planet with nuclear weapons in the process. But can machine learning really become that advanced? Can a machine truly be self aware?
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning [R2D3] by Stephanie Yee & Tony Chu
Article (12 minutes)
“In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.”
MarI/O – Machine Learning for Video Games [YouTube] by Seth Bling
Video (6 minutes)
“You’re watching a skilled player play Super Mario World. But this player is not human. It’s a computer program I wrote called MarI/O. This program started out knowing absolutely nothing about Super Mario World or Super Nintendo. In fact, it didn’t even know pressing right on the controller would make the player go towards the end of the level. It learned all of these things through a process called neuro-evolution.”
Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level [MIT Technology Review]
Article (8 minutes)
“It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the reigning world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, for the first time under standard tournament rules. Since then, chess-playing computers have become significantly stronger, leaving the best humans little chance even against a modern chess engine running on a smartphone.”
How Close is Machine Learning to Artificial Intelligence? [Geektime] by Laura Rosbrow-Telem
Article (9 minutes)
“When many people think of ‘machine learning,’ a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) where computer algorithms can receive new information and learn without supervision, they concern themselves with humanity’s ability to survive a cybernetic army that has become too intelligent for our own good: also known as Terminator‘s Skynet. And yet, this fear is completely off topic.”
Kevin Kelly on Artificial Intelligence and Designer Babies [Tim Ferriss] by Tim Ferriss
Podcast (48 minutes)
“In the sense of an AI that takes over and makes another AI that’s so smart that through immediate generations it becomes God? No, I don’t believe that myth. But I do think it’s a very powerful idea.”
‘Ex Machina’ Will Completely Change How You Think About Artifical Intelligence [Mic] by Kevin O’Keeffe
Article (4 minutes)
“Ex Machina isn’t a horror film, but the message it sends about AI is a scary one. This isn’t the stuff of science fiction anymore, either. Students are able to create artificial intelligence these days, and it has no less than Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking terrified.”
The “Dreams” of Google’s AI are Equal Parts Amazing and Disturbing [Quartz] by Adam Epstein
Article (6 minutes)
“Show an artificial neural network a normal, cloudy sky, and it’ll tell you there are dog-fish and pig-snails floating around out there. It’s what one imagines an AI might see on the computing equivalent of an acid trip.”
Longer Reads
- Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data by Peter Flach
- Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
- The Singularity: Heretic by David Beers
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