Humanity has never suffered from a shortage of questions. We have suffered from a shortage of answers, and perhaps even more from a shortage of ways to search for them deeply enough. Some problems survive for decades because they are not simply difficult. They sit at the edge of what human cognition, available computation, experimental capacity, money and time can reasonably explore. Better energy storage. … Continue reading The Price of an (new) Answer
Where do we, humans, stand? The first AI courtroom controversy was about transparency. The real disruption begins later, when machines are trusted enough to argue, decide, and appeal, and humans must redefine what professional value and justice actually mean. The artificial lawyer had barely started speaking when the judge interrupted. “Hold on. Is that counsel for the case?” It was not. The man appearing before … Continue reading Agent Lawyer, Agent Judge
I think the most interesting thing about space is that most of us are looking at it the wrong way. Yeap. For as long as I can remember, space has occupied a special place in my imagination. Not because I was an expert. I wasn’t. But like millions of people, I was fascinated by the same enduring questions: stars, distant planets, the possibility of alien … Continue reading The Future of Space Isn’t Exploration
… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?
When photography first appeared, painters didn’t celebrate. They panicked. Suddenly, a machine could capture reality with a precision no human hand could match. No need to master anatomy for years, no need to understand light through endless trial and error, no need to mix pigments until your fingers carried the memory of color. A camera could do in seconds what took painters decades to approximate. … Continue reading What is Art?
You must be logged in to post a comment.