MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged AI, anniversary, artificial intelligence, arts, book, brain, computer, culture, Elon Musk, ethics, featured, frankenstein, Google, humanities, information theory, Jaan TAllinn, Larry Page, Mary Shelley, Max Tegmark, morals, neuromorphic computer, Nick Bostrom, philosophy, prometheus, research, science, society, STEM, technology, William Godwin.

by Justin Reynolds

Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, the classic novel by Mary Shelley that stands at the pinnacle of the gothic tradition and looks forward to the new genre of science fiction, was first published 200 years ago this month. Shelley’s visceral tale of the terrible consequences that follow the failure of brilliant young scientist Victor Frankenstein to take responsibility for the strange new life he creates, is both of its time and utterly contemporary.

It can be read as a high Romantic fantasy set against a background of electric storms, shimmering Alpine peaks, Rhineland forests and Arctic wastelands, and as a subtle meditation on themes of knowledge and responsibility that resonate with today’s hopes and fears for the possibilities opened by artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology.Continue Reading

THE ROAD TO FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM: PART 2

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 3D printing, AI, automation, communism, FALGSC, future, luxury, M-Pesa, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, post-capitalism, RepRap, sci-fi, singularity, technology.

For part 1, click here.

Content warning: links contain references to white nationalism and Charlottesville.

By Zoe Harding

Unfortunately, I can’t provide a full road map to the future from our current Nazi-sodden economically unstable world of earthbound, cishet-dominated capitalism (at least, not in 600 words). If the 20th century taught us anything, it’s that traditional revolutions are messy, violent and frequently impossibly complex things, and, even if their intentions are good, they tend to make things worse rather than better. A violent uprising with the fat cats first against the wall is perhaps a good daydream while you’re stressed and trying to pay your rent on time, but in practice we’d get another Stalin.

As such, this article will be much more hypothetical, looking at the kind of technology necessary for a global, fully automated and luxurious communist society, and then looking at ways we might potentially create and distribute it.Continue Reading

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AI, alternative intelligence, archaeologists, Baghdad battery, break, civilisations, digital age, evolution, external, God, gods, google maps, human engineering, internet, ipad, life, malfunction, mortality, promethean, radio, simplify, technology, Turing test, virtual world.

by Pip Morgan

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” -Vladimir Lenin.

The internet is breaking, this news greeted my ears during the early days of last summer, the man speaking on the radio (the expert), was trying very hard to make the problem intelligible to the layman, explaining the momentary stammers and false starts. Interestingly this is the recent diagnosis that the internet received; at running the risk of over simplifying; it is ‘on the blip’.

All over the world there are anonymous administrators monitoring the waves, and giving it the occasional zap with the equivalent of a defibrillator when servers become overloaded.Continue Reading

ROBOTS WON’T BUILD OUR FUTURE — WE HAVE TO DO IT OURSELVES

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged AI, anthropology, artificial intelligence, automation, basic income, capitalism, caroline lucas, citizens income, David Graeber, economic structure, economics, environmental crisis, extreme poverty, Green Party, guardian, industrial strategy, John Maynard Keynes, Labour, labour party, leisure society, machines, management consultant, nuclear weapons, revolution, robots, social media, social media analyst, society, tom watson, trade union, unemployment, workers' movements, working week.

by Olivia Hanks

The Labour Party’s deputy leader Tom Watson wrote in The Guardian last week about the challenges posed to society by automation. Rapid developments in artificial intelligence over the last few years have brought this issue to prominence once again, and spawned a proliferation of articles saying, effectively, “We know we said this in the 60s, but this time we mean it — robots are going to take over the world!”

The fact that fears of mass unemployment caused by machines proved largely unfounded in the 19th century and again 50 years ago doesn’t mean that we should ignore this issue. Far from it — it presents us with an opportunity to rethink our entire approach to work.Continue Reading

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MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

THE ROAD TO FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY GAY SPACE COMMUNISM: PART 2

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

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