... delegate voting to the system ‘which best demonstrates progress towards machine intelligence’. One of this year’s finalists is ALICE ... Loebner Prize, an annual international artificial intelligence competition for the most human-like chatbot." (From BCS_SIGAI ... gather like-technology; contestants differ in what type of intelligence they attempt to demonstrate. For example, in 2009 Alice' ...

J. Storrs Hall read the recent Robin Hanson post on economics and machine intelligence. Here’s his suggestion: It seems to me that one obvious way to ameliorate the impact of the AI/robotics revolution in the economic world, then, is simple: build robots whose cognitive architectures are enough different from humans ...

For some very interesting speculations concerning the uploading of human consciousness, development of human level machine intelligence, and the emulation of human minds in machines, check out the Singularity Summit 2009 videos that are now online. A wide variety of ideas and viewpoints will help to spur your ...

... have been many discussions relating to transhumanism and augmenting intelligence as well as just intelligence itself.  However, at the heart of many of these discussions the subject of Artificial Intalligence (AI) ... be built to perform many intelligent-like acts and simulate human intelligence, but I would argue that there is a fundamental difference that isn't often mentioned. read more

... , which would give it a radically different world view. In particular, a software intelligence would essentially be immortal and so have no need to produce independent children that live on after it dies. It would thus have no evolutionary need for love. Somewhere in the middle are those who take the intelligence explosion concept, and use that as the engine for all sorts of ultra-tech fun: ...

... or partial information. Learning is one of the other aspects of computer artificial intelligence. The intention is to have machine that self learn and create a self awareness of it. When put in to a new surroundings, the machine should be able to catch the details and conform consequently. This is also geared toward space technology as the computer artificial ...