Ghost In The Machine: Artificial Intelligence

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On this week’s show we discuss the creation of a new life-form - one being born at this very moment - the seed which, forbidding some extinction level disaster will grow to envelop and surpass all aspects of human life - a truly Artificial Intelligence, or, a computer-based form of life with equal or greater levels of intelligence, awareness and autonomy than the humans who created it; bringing with it the potential to permanently alter the course of human history faster and more dramatically than is even yet imaginable. Will we become cavemen, robot-food, utopian cyborgs or destroy the entire planet before any of these can occur? What happens next is up to you...

In this show we discuss:
-Artificial Intelligence
-Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
-The Jacquard Loom
-Binary Computing
-Algorithms
-What is a Turing machine?
-The Digital Universe
-Defining intelligence
-Alpha Go and Google Deepmind
-Silicon Based Life
-Transhumanism
-Android Rights / AI Rights
-Uploading Consciousness
-The Singularity

In the extended show available at http://www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we also discuss:
-Good AI versus Evil AI
-Solar Punk Applications
-Computers Speaking in Riddles
-Roko’s Basilisks
-Asimov’s Three Laws
-The Inevitable Future
-Sex with Satanic Robots
-Death and Love
-Star Wars Droids
-The Demiurge
-Droids Rights

Special thanks to Mari for writing the technical explanations, and Heka Astra for the etymological sections. 

Music By:
Spirit Travel Plaza
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Sources:
Ada Lovelace:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Turing Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRDvLACg5Q

Modern AI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Jacquard Loom:
https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/jacquard-loom

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