The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence By Matt Mahoney‚ Nov. 17‚ 2007 When we are able to create machines smarter than humans‚ then those machines could do likewise‚ but much faster. The result will be an explosion of intelligence‚ and according to Vernor Vinge‚ the end of the human era. The Friendly AI Problem The Singularity Institute was founded to counter the threat of unfriendly artificial intelligence‚ losing control of the machines we have built‚ but the problem remains unsolved
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Dream of Electric Sheep by‚ Phillip K. Dick In the twenty-first century‚ many of us have become accustomed to the ubiquitous presence of technology. The fusion between us and technology blurs the line between the real and tangible world with the simulated realm that resides in the pockets of most of the population. The danger that lies in the transfer between real and technological worlds is the ignition of an erasure of human identity caused by the rise of superficiality in these mediums. Superficial
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users. My first question started out as “Is technology really addictive?” But‚ I realized that question is to broad to discus in this format‚ so I narrowed the scope of my question to the more defined “Are simulated online worlds‚ such as those found in MMOGs‚ addictive?” This question lead me to my second question‚ “ What kind of impact would this addiction have on the real lives of its users?” I believe these are interesting
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The Stanford prison experiment was organized by three psychologists from Stanford University with a purpose is to observe the behavior between guards and prisoners in a simulated environment‚ and whether or not a prison environment aided in rehabilitating inmates‚ or increased the possibility of violent behavior. Formal hypotheses were developed describing that an assignment to either role of prisoner or guard would result in significantly different reactions on behavioral measures of interaction
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T he Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular‚ EPI research focuses on issues that affect entry-level employment. Among other issues‚ EPI research has quantified the impact of new labor costs on job creation‚ explored the connection between entry-level employment and welfare reform‚ and analyzed the demographic distribution of mandated benefits. EPI sponsors nonpartisan research
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Helplessly Hoping Purpose: To explain the research basis for the concept of learned helplessness. Summary: In this activity you will explore the importance of a sense of personal control over the events in your life. You’ll participate in a simulated experiment on learned helplessness in dogs‚ and then consider how the results might apply to the behavior of people trapped in unpleasant
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decision and all other decision payoffs. 2. Variable costs are independent of volume and remain constant. 3. Regret is the difference between the payoff from the 4 A _________ period of real time is represented by a __________ period of simulated time. 5. A seasonal pattern is an up-and-down repetitive movement within a trend occurring periodically 6. A trend is a gradual‚ long-term‚ up or down movement of demand. 7. A model is a functional relationship and include 8. Random
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experiment‚ I will have 200 pairs of recorded processing time. Next‚ I will use paired t-test to exam rule hypothesis proposed above. Specifically‚ for example‚ let’s assume that I have recorded the processing time (in milliseconds) of NegCue as follows (simulated in R): [1] 1218 1184 656 977 443 592 1215 1001 745 820 397 437 1010 973 833 581 755 658 896 1153 840 1051 859 [24] 1084 932 927 616 932 849 433 1001 769
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idea of the experience machine reveals that this is untrue. Happiness is‚ in fact‚ a very important aspect of human life‚ however‚ the circumstances and environments of obtaining happiness are equally important. Merely experiencing things through a simulated machine is not
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Simulated ABO and Rh Blood Typing Background information: Science Kit and Boreal Laboratories Protocol (Materials and Methods): NeoSci ABO-Rh Typing Using Neo/BLOOD Introduction Around 1900‚ Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are at least four different kinds of human blood based on the presences or absence of specific agglutinogens (agglutinating antigens) on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs‚ also known as erythrocytes). These antigens have been designated as A and B. Antibodies
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