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Calum Chace
Goodreads Author
Born
The United Kingdom
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Greg Egan, Nick Bostrom, and lots of others
Member Since
November 2014
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Publishers brace for a shock wave as search referrals slow
A rock has been thrown into the pond of digital publishing and it is making waves. Referrals from search engines are falling. For media organisations whose business models involve attracting eyeballs to sell advertising, this could be the beginning of an existential crisis.
For organisations that depend heavily on organic search to bring in readers, less search traffic means less revenue. Fewer cli
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“Today, while the world hangs on every utterance of Justin Bieber and the Kardashian family, relatively few of us even know the names of Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, two men who quite literally saved the world.”
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
“Will we even know when the first AGI is created? The first machine to become conscious may quickly achieve a reasonably clear understanding of its situation. Anything smart enough to deserve the label superintelligent would surely be smart enough to lay low and not disclose its existence until it had taken the necessary steps to ensure its own survival. In other words, any machine smart enough to pass the Turing test would be smart enough not to. It”
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
“It states that “intelligence measures an agent’s general ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.” (2)”
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
― Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence
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