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Future AI Expands to Boston
Location Offers Unparalleled Access to Tech Talent, Business Resources.
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Artificial Intelligence: Looking Deeper at Neurons
Looking deeper at neurons, the brain has billions of them hooked together in a big network.
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Top Artificial Intelligence Companies to Watch in 2022
present a variety of new and exciting opportunities/products individuals and enterprises can employ for their benefit.
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Future AI Provides Grand to Temple U's NARS Project
The NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System) Project is an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system focused on reasoning, learning, planning. perceiving, and temporal/procedural control.
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The human touch: ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ is next phase of AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming all sectors of our society. Whether we realize it or not, every time we do a Google search or ask Siri a question, we’re using AI.
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PERSPECTIVE: Confronting the Potential Security Threats from Inevitable Artificial General Intelligence Development
While we will be able to program the motivations of initial AGIs, we can’t control the motivations of the people or even the corporations that own the
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Machine Learning is Not Like Your Brain Part Seven: Conclusion
The Inescapable Conclusion: Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain. The final article in this nine-part series summarizes the many reasons why Machine Learning is not like your brain - along with a few similarities.
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Machine Learning is Not Like Your Brain Part Eight: Neuron Efficiency
Efficiency Spells the Difference Between Biological Neurons and Their Artificial Counterparts. Part 8 of this series explores a single facet of biological neurons which, so far, have kept them way ahead of their artificial counterparts: their efficiency.
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AI Versus The Human Brain
AI systems are often compared to the human brain, even though they have almost nothing in common. To achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), we tend to look to the only example of general intelligence available for humans to study: the human brain.
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Why Artificial General Intelligence Isn’t Further Along
For all the devastation it has caused, the Covid-19 pandemic could rightfully claim responsibility for accelerating the adaptation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world.
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Machine Learning is Not Like Your Brain Part Seven: What Neurons are Good At
Thus far, this series has focused on things that Machine Learning does or needs which biological neurons simply can’t do. This article turns the tables and discusses a few things that neurons are particularly good at.
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AGI-22 Conference Keynote by Future AI CEO, Charles Simon, Seattle, Aug 19-22
The limitations of today’s artificial intelligence (AI), the ways in which it differs from the human brain, and the similarities between the brain and the next phase of AI – artificial general intelligence (AGI) – will be the focus of a keynote address to be delivered by Future AI Founder and CEO Charles Simon.
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Sailing, whiskey influencing and more: 4 DC tech pros share their (very cool) favorite hobbies
Fifth Tribe's Khuram Zaman, Spotify's Taylor Poindexter, Kion's Brian Price and Future AI's Charles Simon clued us in on what they do when the work clock stops running.
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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 6: The Importance of Precise Synapse Weights and the Ability to Set Them Quickly
As far as we know, the weight of a synapse can only be changed by near-concurrent firing of the two neurons it connects. This is completely at odds with the fundamental architecture of ML’s backpropagation algorithm.
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AGI Is Ready To Emerge (Along With The Risks It Will Bring)
Within the next decade, artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the ability of computer systems to understand, learn and respond as humans do—is expected to emerge. And while it’s relatively easy to cite benefits that AGI could produce, it is equally important to note that the risks of AGI are very real.
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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 5: Biological Neurons Can’t Do Summation of Inputs
See why biological neurons can’t do the most fundamental process of the artificial perceptron, the summation of inputs.
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DC’s Future AI is working on the ‘holy grail’ of artificial intelligence
With his new artificial general intelligence startup, FutureAI Founder Charles Simon wants to change, well, the future of AI.
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Future AI Unveils Sallie, Software that Thinks, Learns, and Evolves Like a Person
Priority Beta-Testing of its Artificial General Intelligence Technology Now Open
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As AI Advances, Will Human Workers Disappear?
If you’ve recently eaten at a fast-food restaurant, driven on a toll road or checked out groceries at the supermarket, you may have noticed one thing they all have in common: Many people who used to help you have been replaced by machines.
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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 4: The Neuron’s Limited Ability to Represent Precise Values
In the fourth installment, we focus on a fundamental issue: it is difficult to represent numerical values in neurons and impractical to represent them with precision.
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The Future of AI: Artificial General Intelligence
To attain true AI understanding, researchers should shift their attention to developing a basic, underlying AGI technology that replicates the contextual understanding of humans.
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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 3: Fundamental Architecture
Part three of this series examines the fundamental architecture underlying machine learning and the brain.
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Overcoming AI’s Limitations to Reach True Understanding
Can AI advance to the next level or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Can it learn the ability to actually understand or learn intellectual tasks in the same way that a human can?
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To evolve, AI must face its limitations
From medical imaging and language translation to facial recognition and self-driving cars, examples of artificial intelligence (AI) are everywhere. And let’s face it: although not perfect, AI’s capabilities are pretty impressive.
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Future AI Named a Winner by the IT World Awards in Artificial Intelligence Category
Future AI, an artificial general intelligence (AGI) company, announced today that it has received an award for Startup of the Year in the category of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 17th Annual 2022 Information Technology World Awards.
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Future AI Wins Startup of the Year Honors in the 2022 Information Technology World Awards
Company Recognized for Advancing the Development of Artificial General Intelligence
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Future AI Wins Startup of the Year Honors in the 2022 Information Technology World Awards
Company Recognized for Advancing the Development of Artificial General Intelligence
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To evolve, AI must face its limitations
From medical imaging and language translation to facial recognition and self-driving cars, examples of artificial intelligence (AI) are everywhere. And let’s face it: although not perfect, AI’s capabilities are pretty impressive.
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Artificial General Intelligence: What's Behind You?
What's behind you? It's a simple enough question, but it says a great deal about how your mind works and, therefore, how artificial general intelligence (AGI) must be made to work if it is ever to reach the goal of human-like intelligence.
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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part Two: Perceptrons vs Neurons
An ML system requiring thousands of tagged samples is fundamentally different from the mind of a child, which can learn from just a few experiences of untagged data.
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Machine Learning is Not Like Your Brain Part One: Neurons are Slow, Slow, Slow
Artificial intelligence is not all that intelligent. While today’s AI can do some extraordinary things, the functionality underlying its accomplishments has very little to do with the way in which a human brain works to achieve the same tasks.
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Robots Are the Key to Advancing Artificial Intelligence
From doing a Google search to asking Alexa to play your favorite song, it’s impossible to deny the incredible impact artificial intelligence (AI) has had on today’s world. Ironically, AI’s advances to date also shed light on its shortfalls.
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Overcoming AI's Limitations
Artificial general intelligence will be able to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can. AGI will have high costs and huge risks, but it’s coming—maybe soon.
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Your AI Doesn't Really Understand You
While there can be little doubt that AI has proved to be a highly valuable and effective tool, today’s AI falls short in a number of basic tasks any child could perform. Does today’s AI really comprehend what it is doing when it performs these various tasks?
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Artificial intelligence really isn’t all that intelligent
Narrow AI applications such as Google Search and Amazon Alexa are great at solving specific problems, but only as long as you stick to the script.
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Why Researchers Can't Agree on AI Consciousness
The idea of conscious artificial intelligence (AI) conjures images of machines taking over the world, but experts disagree over whether to take the concept seriously.
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Advances to FutureAI’s Brain Simulator Technology Enable 3-D Comprehension
The ability to replicate human-level thinking abilities artificially, or AGI, simply does not exist in today’s AI, which is more like a powerful method of statistical analysis than a real form of intelligence.
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FutureAI CEO Charles Simon accepted into Forbes Technology Council.
The Forbes platform will help us bring a greater understanding of artificial general intelligence to the technology world at large and how this next iteration of AI will serve as the foundation for various real-world applications.
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With the shortage of labor, companies are now looking at how robots can replace some of the lost labor force.
AI may not help much with the mechanical aspects of robotics because many mechanical problems can be solved efficiently with a knowledge of physics, forces, and feedback, rather than machine learning.
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AI: FutureAI Raises $2 Million to Develop Artificial General Intelligence
FutureAI, an early-stage deep technology startup, announced that it has raised $2 million in an initial funding round.
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The danger of Meta’s new supercomputer is the company behind it
Because we now encounter AI on a daily basis, the shortcomings and ethical implications of the technology have been increasingly thrust into the public eye.
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AGI and the Future of Humanity
We must begin now to understand how this technical evolution might progress and consider what actions to take now to prepare.
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Will AGI Be a Friend or Foe?
Some believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will wipe out the human race, while others are confident it will lead to a utopian society. Between these extremes, most people anticipate major changes as AGI becomes more prevalent.
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Can AGI take the next step toward genuine intelligence?
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of our daily lives. What will it take for AI to evolve into truly intelligent, thinking machines, or artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
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Development Philosophy Behind AGI
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One Billion Neurons on a Desktop Computer
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Interview with Charles Simon
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AI System Tops 1 Billion Neurons on a Desktop Computer
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As AI Use Grows, So Do Ethical Questions
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The Universal Knowledge Store on the Way to Artificial General Intelligence
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Opening the Window on AI Transparency
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Transparency and the Emperor's New Clothes
What AI Transparency truly reveals.
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Transparency and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
The problem is not that artificial intelligence (AI) can make foolish errors; it is that sometimes AI can seem really smart.
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AI Times Journal: Interview WIth Charles Simon
We thank Charles Simon for taking part in this Q&A and sharing his views on AGI, his predictions on the future developments in this field, and his plans with FutureAI.
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Brain Simulator II: A New Platform for AGI Experimentation
A growing consensus of researchers contend that new algorithms are needed to transform narrow AI to AGI.
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AI Transparency will Lead to New Approaches
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FutureAI Launches Brain Simulator II
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Brain Simulator II Enables Evolutions of Artificial Intelligence
AI Transparency will Lead to New Approaches
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Open Source Software Brain Simulator II Launched
Introducing the Brain Simulator II
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Brain Simulator II enables Evolution in Artificial Intelligence
Software Enables Experimentation into Diverse AI Algorithms
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Interview in Unite AI (about Artificial General Intelligence)
I’ve been fascinated by the question, “Can machines think?” ever since I first read Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper which begins with that question. So far, the answer is clearly, “No,” but there is no scientific reason why not.
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Brain Simulator II technology: What you need to know
Initial Brain Simulator Announcement
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How we can Benefit from Advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
From the introduction of the Brain Simulator II
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Using Individual Neural Spikes to Represent Information
Paper currently in review
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Article published in Proceedings of IEEE ISTAS 2019
Ethics and Artificial General Intelligence, Technological Prediction as a Groundwork for Guidlines
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Information on computational performance
Analyzes the Brain Simulator performance int multi-core and multi-server environments and extrapolates to the number of servers needed to emulate the neocortex.
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Article in Proceedings of AGI-20
New Brain Simulator II Open Source Software
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Article published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
'Will Computers Revolt? article about the likelihood of a robot apocalypse.
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Release: Creating Brains in Software Video Series on YouTube
The 'Brain Simulator II' and 'How Your Brain Works' video series on YouTube were announced today by FutureAI.
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Open Source Software Paves Way For Evolution of AI to AGI
Introducing the Brain Simulator II
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Release: 20 Books Every Computer Scientist Should Read
EIN Presswire: 3/1/19. Annapolis,MD — Top 20 List of computer science books adds 'Will Computers Revolt?'
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Release: New Book
EIN Presswire: 3/8/19. Annapolis,MD — Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the ability of computers to think like humans, may seem like a sci-fantasy set far in the future, but in reality, it is right around the corner.
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CEOWorld: Article
The Top 10 Things to Expect From a Future With Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
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Brain Simulator in Newsweek
The original Brain Simulator as it appeared in Newsweek in 1988.
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Link to the Original Brain Simulator
Created in 1988, the original Brain Simulator ran on DOS and simulated an array of 1200 neurons.
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Reader Views Review: 5-Stars...
..unquestionably a masterpiece...a must-read for techno-savvy readers.
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Readers' Favorite Review: 5-Stars...
..mind-blowing, prophetic, thought-provoking, and essentially informative.
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Readers' Favorite Review: 5-Stars...
..a compelling and realistic premise...a warning from an expert.
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Readers' Favorite Review: 5-Stars...
...uses simple language with many illustrations to make his points very clear and...there are links to videos to illustrate his point of view.
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Review: Blue Ink
Simon’s work is grounded and fact-based, which gives his few speculations more credibility. A final section devoted to these projections runs through different scenarios, from AI turning against humans, to humans rising up against AI.
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US Review of Books
Arming readers with this knowledge, the author then lays out four thought-provoking possible scenarios that could occur if computers gained dominance over humans.
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Foreword Reviews
This is an intriguing, sometimes philosophical, study whose short and complex chapters move with speed.
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Review: Publishers Weekly
...a welcome contribution to the literature on artificial intelligence...appealing blend of philosophy and hard science...
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Review: Computers Are Revolting
Altogether, Charles Simon’s Will Computers Revolt? is an important book that’s fairly easy to read...and accessible to a wide range of people interested in the future of robotics and artificial intelligence.
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Review in Foreword Reviews
An interesting, timely, and thoughtful book, Will Computers Revolt? probes the future of AI and sees exciting possibilities.
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Review in Kirkus Reviews
A bold and rigorous contribution to the literature on an increasingly important scientific subject.
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Review in Irish Tech News
...well written, and well reasoned out and explains the key issues and questions we need to be asking ourselves.
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Article in Digital Trends
Explores four possible scenarios of the interaction of mankind with intelligent machines
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Article in Boston Commons
This article was adapted from the book, Will Computers Revolt?(More…) There is a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) and how to create computers capable of intelligent behavior.(More…)
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Article/Review in Engadget
Consciousness and free will have long been the hallmarks of human intelligence, what sets us apart from 'lower' forms of life. But as artificial intelligences grow increasingly advanced, the gap between biological and mechanical minds continues to shrink.
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Article in the Science Fiction Blog
Computers will soon outsmart us. Does that make an AI rebellion inevitable?
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