{"id":29025,"date":"2016-08-17T02:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T09:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-todays-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-will-spawn-sentience"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:04","slug":"how-todays-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-will-spawn-sentience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/how-todays-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-will-spawn-sentience","title":{"rendered":"How Today\u2019s Jungle of Artificial Intelligence Will Spawn Sentience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-todays-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-will-spawn-sentience.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It\u2019s usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still relevant now. This is one of those articles. It was originally published <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2010\/08\/10\/we-live-in-a-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-that-will-spawn-sentience\/\">August 10, 2010<\/a>. We hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have a flying car, jetpack, or ray gun, but this is still the future. How do I know? Because we\u2019re all surrounded by artificial intelligence. I love when friends ask me when we\u2019ll develop smart computers\u2026because they\u2019re usually holding one in their hands. Your phone calls are routed with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Every time you use a search engine you\u2019re taking advantage of data collected by \u2018smart\u2019 algorithms. When you call the bank and talk to an automated voice you are probably talking to an AI\u2026just a very annoying one. Our world is full of these limited AI programs which we classify as \u201cweak\u201d or \u201cnarrow\u201d or \u201capplied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/09\/how-todays-jungle-of-artificial-intelligence-will-spawn-sentience\/?utm_content=bufferdb490&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/09\/how-todays-jungle-of-ar...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It\u2019s usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still relevant now. This is one of those articles. It was originally published August 10, 2010. We hope you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66548,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions\/66548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}