This week we are going to talk about one of the greatest creations of humanity, and possibly one of it’s most dangerous: artificial intelligence, or within that field is called “machine learning.” Here are some of the questions we will attempt to address this week:
What are the powers and advantages that come from teaching computers to do things that they are not explicitly programmed?
What are the dangers of this technology in general? Is there a real threat of our children becoming too smart for us?
What are the consequences of allowing this pandoras box to sit in the hands of statists, collectivists and government? If they are too dire, what steps can we take to ensure that we have our own learning machines who serve our interests, and not the interests of our political masters.
viewings
The dwarf in the flask https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnzyQPqIKhc
What’s the A stand for again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O9ZyaNCcmw
The future of deep mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99kD9yqdlc&feature=youtu.be
A.I. and Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n9e3UVqBH0
listenings
A.I. are what you teach them to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
Elon Musk – It’s already too late https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3fv8gl6NE
A machine learning podcast http://ocdevel.com/mlg
readings ## & RESOURCES
Machine Learning Mastery - http://machinelearningmastery.com/start-here/
Andrew Ng’s Very Popular Course - https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Python Simple Machine Learning Intro Project - http://machinelearningmastery.com/machine-learning-in-python-step-by-step/
$10 Udemy Class! - https://www.udemy.com/machinelearning/
Udacity Machine Learning Classes - https://www.udacity.com/courses/machine-learning