Why You Should Fear A Genuine Autonomous Intelligence Machine

Fear Genuine Autonomous Intelligence Machine

As our discussion of representational and abstract art demonstrates, machine intelligence needs a value-based internal model of the world to interact with its environment. If such an agent is to Continue ReadingWhy You Should Fear A Genuine Autonomous Intelligence Machine

Abstract Art and Artificial Intelligence

First Abstract Work by Wassily Kandinsky

How would an intelligent software agent look at abstract art? Previously, we demonstrated why today’s intelligent agents are unable to comprehend a representational work of art. Could an intelligent agent decode Continue ReadingAbstract Art and Artificial Intelligence

Vermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama

The Love Letter - Vermeer

A large rubber ball bounces into the street, the driver sees the ball, intuits that a child might follow, and stops the car. Automated vehicles are incapable of accomplishing the Continue ReadingVermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama

Art and the Future of Pokémon Go

Raphael "The Wedding of the Virgin"

Pokémon Go players have fallen off a cliff, crashed their cars, and jumped into traffic. They have been robbed. Someone saw his house invaded by players who were told it Continue ReadingArt and the Future of Pokémon Go

The Digitization of Eternity: Humans Grow Old and Die, Should Not Art?

Can technology preserve artworks without changing them? Rothko painted five murals in 1962 for a room on the 10th floor of Harvard’s Holyoke Center. Sunlight and the chemically unstable paints Continue ReadingThe Digitization of Eternity: Humans Grow Old and Die, Should Not Art?