Links for 20-08-2007
Friendly AI, another Gibson interview, UK surveillance society…
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“Consider two classes of AIs. One class of AIs manipulates external objects to direct the world towards a goal state, the other doesn’t. AIs with the greatest real-world impact fall into the first category.”
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2 – DAYS OF FUTURE PAST: William Gibson Overdrive
Yet another Gibson interview, and a very good one too.
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3 – Watch it, or surveillance will take over our lives
“… whether we like it or not we all have shadowy ‘avatars’, digital doubles of ourselves, assembled by computer from dozens of different database components, that are logged and managed in ways of which we are only dimly aware.”
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