Scott Robinson
2035
Among those putting forth predictions of the AI future is the Pew Research Center, which published a June 2023 report summarizing the ...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 5, 20235 min read
A Soul for AI
In the hands-on world that’s coming, the biggest and most impactful threats of AI aren’t likely to be cataclysmic; they’re more probably...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 11, 20235 min read
Surviving AI in the Workplace
Above, I’ve confessed my anxiety about the future my children and grandchildren are facing, a future fraught with few certainties, other...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20235 min read
My Grandpa's Grandpa's Grandchild's Grandchild's Grandchild's Grandchild
Above, we noted the prediction that all human labor – every job humans currently do – will be taken over by AI in the next 12 decades....
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Scott Robinson
Jun 10, 20237 min read
In the Service of Humankind
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the potential pitfalls presented by the rapid rise of AI, and justly so: AI is the...
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Scott Robinson
May 29, 20233 min read
Tender Loving Care
Faced with the possibility of malevolent AI that does us harm – or AI that freely complies when humans use it to harm other humans – what...
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20234 min read
The Wise Old AI on the Mountain
The general truth that “anything a human being can do, AI can do better” is in the water supply, and of course that isn’t quite true....
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Scott Robinson
May 27, 20237 min read
Frase's Four Futures
Peter Frase offers a variation on Robert Costanza’s AI outcomes matrix in his book Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. It bears a lot of...
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Scott Robinson
May 26, 20235 min read
Analogical AI, or Lakoff's Rule
What else should we be thinking about, when AI gets analogical? This necessary step toward artificial general intelligence – connecting a...
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Scott Robinson
May 26, 20234 min read
Grow from Go
Above, Melanie Mitchell has reminded us that the abstract activities of chess and Go – two applications that AI put human beings firmly...
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Scott Robinson
May 25, 202311 min read
Hofstadter's Eight
We’ve already noted that Douglas Hofstadter, in his seminal Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, established baselines for both...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20234 min read
Star Trek, Big Government, Ecotopia & Mad Max
When considering our AI future, the new human era of human-machine integration, there are numerous scenarios we are obliged to evaluate....
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20234 min read
The Corbomite Dilemma
In 2017, Google’s DeepMind team unveiled AlphaGo Zero, a game-playing AI that was a successor to AlphaGo, which had beaten Lee Sodel, the...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20235 min read
For Our Grandchildren's Grandchildren
There’s much debate over how soon AI and robots are going to strip away human labor, with predictions (documented elsewhere in this book)...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20232 min read
Grandparenting AI
I have a grandson named JJ. He’s a college freshman, studying to be an engineer. He’s bright, focused, curious, and industrious –...
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Scott Robinson
May 24, 20235 min read
The Black Box Ding
Much is being written about how human-like generative AI seems, and just as much is being written about how that’s just an illusion;...
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Scott Robinson
May 23, 202322 min read
The Coming Decimation of the Job Market
You probably see some, if not all, of these headlines every day at this point: AI is going to cause a global financial meltdown AI can do...
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Scott Robinson
May 20, 20236 min read
The Views from 2050
The Millennium Project, a think tank belonging to the World Federation of United Nations Associations, in its State of the Future 19.1...
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Scott Robinson
May 20, 20235 min read
Children Behind the Wheel
Those of us who have serious concerns, or even fears, about the future we face as AI becomes part of our world are wildly diverse: these...
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Scott Robinson
May 17, 20235 min read
AI, Generally Speaking
Much of the disquiet over AI’s rapid advances is the growing fear that it will very soon catch up with us, and then blow right past us. A...
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