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The next Turing tests: Reimagining conceptions and measures of AI
Abstract References and Notes Information & Authors Metrics & Citations Check Access References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract In 1950, Alan Turing famously proposed replacing the question “Can machines think?” with a different question: “Can a machine pass for a human?” (1).
The dystopian fantasy of uselessness
The writer is director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge and co-author of ‘Should You Choose to...
Soluble epoxide hydrolase in the liver orchestrates abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in mice - Communications Biology
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Abstract The liver plays an important role in cardiovascular disease by amplifying systemic inflammation, while the underlying mechanisms remain to be defined. Soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) is a pro-inflammatory enzyme, and pharmacological inhibition of sEH was shown to protect against various inflammatory diseases. In this study, we have identified a novel role of the liver, through expression of sEH, in the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
By David Kim, Tetsuo Horimatsu, Mourad Ogbi, Brandee Goo, Praneet Veerapaneni, Mary Moses, Stephen Cave, Tyler Benson, Hunter Sellers, Mitchell Shivers, Stephen B. Haigh, David Fulton, Gabor Csanyi, Yuqing Huo, Xiaochun Long, Philip Coffey, Richard Lee, Avirup Guha, Wenbo Zhi, Lufei Young, Darryl C. Zeldin, Sung Hee Hwang, Bruce D. Hammock, Neal L. Weintraub, Ronnie Chouhaita, Nicole Cyriac, Rosaria Prasad, Ragheb Harb, Ghaith Aboud
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The quest to live longer and defeat death
Are our lives too short? Many people seem to think so, judging by the current interest in life extension.
Can we really live forever?
We are on the verge of a breakthrough in anti-ageing remedies.
Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate
Biography Stephen Cave is the Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge, UK. His other books include Immortality (Crown, 2012), AI Narratives (with Sarah Dillon and Kanta Dihal, Oxford UP, 2020), and Imagining AI (with Kanta Dihal, Oxford UP, 2023). He also advises governments around the world on the ethics of technology and has served as a British diplomat.
Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines|Hardcover
Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines is the first volume to bring together leading feminist thinkers from across the disciplines to explore the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related data-driven technologies on human society. Recent years have seen both an explosion in AI systems and a corresponding rise in important critical analyses of these technologies.
Who makes AI? Better popular films for a better gendered world
GLOBAL Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney 07 March 2023 We may think that cinema mirrors reality, but we have found that when it comes to representing female artificial intelligence scientists, films are actually much worse. In our new research study, published in Public Understanding of Science, we analysed 100 years’ worth of popular AI films to see who makes AI on screen.
Is there such a thing as FREE WILL?
Is there such a thing as FREE WILL? by plato on May 11, 2021 And if not, what are the consequences? It quickly became a spirited debate… after all, there is a lot on the line and it’s certainly not a point to be conceded without a fight. We were discussing the concept of free will… and whether we have it… or not. My interlocutor was steadfast and impassioned. No, he said. None at all. Zero free will. He was quick to quote others.
Using AI ethically to tackle covid-19
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Committees - UK Parliament
On 13 January, the Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning will hear from a panel of expert witnesses on the risks associated with emerging technologies, the potential consequences of society’s growing dependency on technology, the ethical challenges related to technological advancement, and whether the UK is managing technological advances and their associated risks effectively.
Why we like a good robot story
We have been telling stories about machines with minds for almost three thousand years. In the Iliad, written around 800 BCE, Homer describes the oldest known AI: “golden handmaidens” created by Hephaestus, the disabled god of metalworking.
Volume 576 Issue 7786, 12 December 2019
This Week Editorial Editorial | 11 December 2019 International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity. Editorial | 10 December 2019 The built environment consumes energy and produces waste, which makes it pivotal to fighting climate change. A stronger dose of research could help. Editorial | 11 December 2019 A new code of conduct strives for more-diverse research meetings and events.
Lost in the house of tomorrow: Berlin’s newest museum
Pepper the robot greets visitors to Berlin’s Futurium.Credit: David von Becker Thirty years ago, the future became passé. When the Berlin Wall fell in late 1989 and the communist regimes that hid behind it collapsed, political scientist Francis Fukuyama called the event “the end of history”. But he also cast it as the finale of the future: the end of imagining how things might be different. The utopian visions driving both communism and fascism had been discredited and defeated.
James Lovelock’s Novacene — are humans a step to a higher intelligence?
As a young scientist, James Lovelock’s contribution to the war effort was to research burn wounds.
AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind Uploading
Chapter: (p.309) 13 AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind UploadingSource: AI NarrativesAuthor(s): Stephen Cave Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198846666.003.0014 AI promises to be a master technology that can solve any problem—including the problem of death. There are two main contemporary narratives describing how AI might achieve this: cyborgization and mind uploading. This chapter focuses on the latter.
Could the law make us forget Anders Breivik? – Stephen Cave | Aeon Essays
Anders Behring Breivik has been declared sane and criminally responsible for the murder of 77 innocents. But the debate about our proper response to him and other such killers will continue, for the simple reason that they present us with a grim dilemma.
Bridging near- and long-term concerns about AI
Debate about the impacts of AI is often split into two camps, one associated with the near term and the other with the long term. This divide is a mistake — the connections between the two perspectives deserve more attention, say Stephen Cave and Seán S. ÓhÉigeartaigh.
On the dark history of intelligence as domination
As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated and – most important of all – measured. At the age of 11, tens of thousands of us all around the country were ushered into desk-lined halls to take an IQ test known as the 11-Plus.
Public lectures and events
Browser does not support script. Browser does not support script. Browser does not support script. Loading the player... Browser does not support script. Download : Audio Speaker(s): Dr Stephen Cave, Professor John Gray Chair: Dr Simon Glendinning Recorded on 30 May 2012 at Old Theatre, Old Building The will to live forever is central to the human story. Can it be fulfilled? And should we want it to be? Stephen Cave is a philosopher and writer.
Free Will Exists and Is Measurable
I’m delighted that so many people have felt irresistibly compelled to read, share, and comment on my Atlantic article “There’s No Such Thing as Free Will—But we’re better off believing in it anyway.” Quite a few of those readers have assumed—understandably, given the article’s title—that I don’t think there is such a thing as free will. But that’s not the case. I report on the idea that free will has been wholly refuted, but I don’t endorse it.
If We Can Live Longer, Will We Have Second and Third Careers and Marriages?
The division of life into age-based roles like childhood and adulthood, or middle age and old age, is a cultural universal—something found in all known human societies.1 It can actually be seen in all complex organisms, since each must find some way of balancing the competing demands of growth, reproduction and survival. The American Sand-burrowing mayfly spends a year growing underwater as a larva, then, all within five minutes, takes on its adult form, mates, lays eggs, and dies.
There's No Such Thing as Free Will
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing this belief could be calamitous. Our codes of ethics, for example, assume that we can freely choose between right and wrong. In the Christian tradition, this is known as “moral liberty”—the capacity to discern and pursue the good, instead of merely being compelled by appetites and desires.
Rituals and guilt: can these save environmentalism?
We had expected something wilder – sillier, perhaps, with dancing and swivelling eyes. But Deva the tall, clean-shaven shaman could have passed for a web designer, if not for the drum he was beating and the fact that we were lying on the floor in a cavernous hall of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin between a stuffed bison and a resplendent stag. As Deva intoned, the darkening sky outside began to rumble and the first drops spattered against the old window panes.
Is predicting the future futile or necessary?
Predictions about what to expect decades from now will tend to fail.
Is predicting the future futile or necessary?
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Free will is back, and maybe we can measure it
The cat is crouched low to the ground, whiskers brushing grass. It inches forward in minute movements, eyes drilling towards two sparrows just ahead. It tenses, set to spring. The birds prance like sparring boxers, unaware. But then the cat’s muscles relax. The moment wasn’t quite right – something in the angle or the air. It creeps another inch closer, and another, tautens again, then bursts forwards. Cats make decisions.
How to be good - FT.com
Biologists and philosophers offer different answers on how to help altruism flourish.
Epigenome: the symphony in your cells
Our cells perform an amazingly vast variety of tasks within our body, from the brain cells that transfer the electronic impulses related to thoughts, to the white blood cells that wage war on harmful foreign intruders. Perhaps even more remarkable, almost all of our cells are different interpretations of the same exact code: our unique DNA sequence. The record of a cell’s changes in gene expression is known as its epigenome.
Will the future judge us moral?
In 100 years it will not be acceptable to use genderised words such as ‘he’ or ‘she’, which are loaded with centuries of prejudice and reduce a spectrum of greys to black and white. We will use the pronoun ‘heesh’ to refer to all persons equally, regardless of their chosen gender. This will of course apply not only to humans, but to all animals. It will be an offence to eat any life-form.
What will our descendants judge as our greatest sin? – Stephen Cave & Stefan Klein | Aeon Essays
In 100 years it will not be acceptable to use genderised words such as ‘he’ or ‘she’, which are loaded with centuries of prejudice and reduce a spectrum of greys to black and white. We will use the pronoun ‘heesh’ to refer to all persons equally, regardless of their chosen gender. This will of course apply not only to humans, but to all animals. It will be an offence to eat any life-form.
Rise of the machines: is there anything to fear?
March 20, 2015 4:26 pm Rise of the machines: is there anything to fear?
Democracies fail when they ask too little of their c...
‘He turned out to be the same as every other politician.’ That was the complaint I kept hearing in Athens shortly after the leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had signed up to exactly the kind of bailout deal he once vehemently opposed. In reality, it was not so much that he was the same as other politicians as that he faced the same constraints as other Greek politicians: a failing economy, implacable creditors and frustrated fellow leaders.
Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
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Why we still dream we can live on through fame
Glaucus was no coward. He had killed four men, and that was no easy matter when they were charging at him through the dust and din, waving sharp swords and screaming. In those days, it wasn’t just a matter of pulling a trigger or pressing a button. You had to push your spear hard through armour and bone, and watch as their eyes first pleaded, then grew large, then went out. At the same time, though, Glaucus wasn’t entirely sure about this business of killing and dying.
The age of Anthropocene: Masters of the Earth
December 12, 2014 4:33 pm The age of Anthropocene: Masters of the Earth Stephen Cave Scientists say we are entering the age of humans.
In pursuit of happiness
Critical Perspectives in Happiness Research: The Birth of Modern Happiness, by Luka Zevnik, Springer, RRP£72, 158 pages Happiness by...
How much should we worry about death?
This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But this time, my aim was off.
If death comes for everything, does it matter what we kill?
This morning a tiny fly was, true to its name and nature, flying about in the vicinity of my desk. It really was very tiny – a fruit fly, I’d guess. At one point it landed in front of me. I brushed it aside and it resumed flitting about in its patternless path. Then it landed again, and again I aimed to brush it aside. But this time, my aim was off.
What sets humanity apart
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, by Henry Gee, University of Chicago, RRP£18/$26, 224 pages Why Dogs Hump...
Buying Your Way to Eternity
Why do you put up with the frustrations and indignities of work? I’m guessing that, first and foremost, it’s because you think you need the cash. But let’s say you’ve got enough to put a roof over your head and food in your belly — or could easily get it putting in fewer hours than you do. Why are you still at your desk? Why do you spend so many hours adding numbers to a bank balance? The answer might surprise you: Because you believe it will make you live forever.
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