What a consensus-driven robot can tell us about real machine learning
Tag: SciFi
R2D2, I don’t understand you.
Why can’t R2D2 just speak English?
Why do Robots Kill their Creators?
If you make a robot that wants to get out of a box and you don’t let it, don’t expect it to like you.
The Source of Independent Motive
If an AI gets enough compute power will it “wake up?”
A Closed and Common Orbit: Aeluons
This is the third of three installments on the themes present in “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers. Here we discuss the kaleidoscope-cheeked Aeluons and their radical take on family values.
A Closed and Common Orbit: Sidra
This is the second of three installments on the themes present in “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers. Here we discuss my favorite character thus far – Sidra the spaceship AI installed in a human body.
A Closed and Common Orbit: Jane
There’s so much to discuss in this book that I’ve split my comments over three blog entries. Here I’ll discuss Jane. Next week I’ll cover my favorite Chambers character thus far, Sidra, the android who identifies as an interstellar spacecraft. Finally I’ll close with the radical ideas that arise from an analysis of the Aandrisk and Aeluon approaches to childrearing.
Dune is the Thinking Person’s Star Wars
Let me tell you about a planet far, far away in a time so far in the future that Earth is a distant memory. It’s a desert planet where mighty spacefaring wizards ride fantastic beasts through the sand. Where despite high technology, battles are still fought with blades and shields. The feudal system has somehow stood the test of time, and a band of scrappy rebels must resist an all-powerful totalitarian emperor.
Samuel Munk 