{"id":26810,"date":"2016-06-13T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-singularity-controversy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:15:06","slug":"the-singularity-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-singularity-controversy","title":{"rendered":"The Singularity Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G74Z-0fON9o\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this London Futurists event, Amnon Eden, lead editor of the volume \u201cSingularity Hypotheses\u201d which was published three years ago, provided an update on the controversies about the Technological Singularity. Topics covered include:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> Luddites, Philistines, and Starry-Eyed: The War over Killer Robots<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> AI (Artificial Intelligence) vs. IA (Intelligence Augmentation) <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> definition, sufficient and necessary conditions. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span> perennial fallacies, debunked and re-debunked. <\/p>\n<p>Amnon was joined on stage by Mark Bishop, Professor of Cognitive Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-singularity-controversy\">Continue reading \u201cThe Singularity Controversy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this London Futurists event, Amnon Eden, lead editor of the volume \u201cSingularity Hypotheses\u201d which was published three years ago, provided an update on the controversies about the Technological Singularity. Topics covered include: \u2022 Luddites, Philistines, and Starry-Eyed: The War over Killer Robots \u2022 AI (Artificial Intelligence) vs. IA (Intelligence Augmentation) \u2022 definition, sufficient and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61526,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions\/61526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}