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Search - Singularity Now! The Artificial Intelligence Timeline: A reader's and investor's guide to the technological event horizon, artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and beyond (Spring 2017)

Singularity Now The Artificial Intelligence Timeline A reader's and investor's guide to the technological event horizon artificial intelligence automation robotics and beyond - Spring 2017
Author: Singularity Now!

(Singularity Now is a nonfiction news mash-up covering advances in artificial intelligence and other high technologies building to the singularity. This edition, a compilation of the Jan., Feb., and March editions, summarizes more than 500 cited articles.) Developments in high technology are advancing at a blistering rate that far outpaces anyb... more »ody?s ability to fully assimilate it all into a comprehensive picture. Such a picture is not what you will find in these pages. Instead, this book series compiles summaries of news articles, columns, blogs and scientific studies focusing on the technologies that will ultimately birth the singularity: artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous machines; and, perhaps to a lesser extent, augmented reality and biotechnology. The methodology of article selection and compilation is not scientific, and the sample size is not statistically significant. Nonetheless, almost daily top AI stories are selected, condensed and encapsulated for clarity and brevity. The result is a running log of nugget paragraph entries that reflect the gist of the biggest AI stories to hit the net in the last month. The intent of this book series is not to present the current state of the technology in the public sphere, but to highlight the public discussion centered on it, to present a sampler platter of news stories on the innovations being unveiled daily, and to reveal the full extent to which these technologies are already entrenched in the gears of our civilization. Over the course of the season, a couple of trends emerged. The news daily includes innovations that reveal an already occurring and perhaps growing disruption to the job market. It reveals that no jobs are entirely safe from being vaporized by automation, robotics and AI. It reveals that AI is making inroads into the lucrative fields of lawyering, banking, insurance, and investing, pillars of the American economy and paradigm. Increasingly AI is being deployed in schools and universities to manage students and empower them with virtual tutors and tools. The news reveals always-on, always-listening natural language interfaces are increasingly finding their way onto gadgets, cars, appliances and into homes. It reveals the major universities are deploying AI in their research to resolve some of the more bedeviling challenges facing humanity. AI is also making a splash in the healthcare sector, as it is being deployed to crunch databases, cram articles, suggest solutions, plan treatment, schedule appointments and help engineer medicines. Once relegated to the distant future, AI-empowered autonomous vehicles, drones and weapons systems are now reportedly only a few years out. Other trends are emerging, specifically regarding news coverage of the sector. First, there remain a few holdouts who declare that the latest wave in AI tech won?t live up to the hype. However, they seem to be outnumbered. Second, the majority of reports that search engines favor are typically one-source, advocacy pieces that effectively give a bullhorn and soapbox to the tech makers. Third, when the implications of the advent of general AI, a nearing milestone no doubt, are discussed to any depth, the talk centers on rogue AI as an existential threat. This should indeed be discussed, no doubt. But in a way that discussion is herring from the very real and much more imminent threat of advanced AI deployed by juggernaut corporate entities, clandestine government agencies and factions, militaries or other police state and surveillance industry players in the effort to establish a total global control grid. What this illustrates is tech sector news reporters either are cynical, wowed or cowed into submission, Kool-Aid drinkers, or can?t see the forest for the trees. Few are asking the tough questions or connecting the dots, which reveals something about the AI arms race. ...

ISBN-13: 9781520661933
ISBN-10: 1520661932
Publication Date: 2/20/2017
Pages: 138
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