On July 29, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) of the US Department of State proposed a new definition of the term “defense service.” The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) ...

Back in March, Hawaii state Sen. Chris Lee introduced legislation urging the U.S. Congress to consider the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence technologies. But he didn’t write it.

Back in March, Hawaii state Sen. Chris Lee introduced legislation urging the U.S. Congress to consider the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence technologies. But he didn't write it.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Consider all of the things that your hand-held cellphone does. It can be a phone, camera, gallery, text, ...

The answer to whether AI is intelligent thus depends on the definition of intelligence—basically, the task at hand (the flying)—and at what level we look at the solving of that task (the use of the ...

I worry that at the time when they should be developing their own voices, they’re being told they don’t need to bother. AI writes for us, reads for us, thinks for us. It replaces our voice with its ...

Back in March, Hawaii state Sen. Chris Lee introduced legislation urging the U.S. Congress to consider the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence technologies. But he didn’t write it.

AI is reputed by some to be approaching general human intelligence. Some might indeed see AI as intelligent as humans, just like AI seems to understand like humans. In an earlier post, I argued that ...