¡A.I. Caramba!

The Incompetent Crew talks machine learning, discusses some robot laws, and reaches the singularity.

Special Guests: C.C. Dewar

Works Cited

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics

Asimov’s Laws, Scientific American

Do We Need Asimov’s Laws, MIT Technology Review

Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson

Robopocalypse, Daniel H Wilson

How Frightened Should we be of Artificial Intelligence, New Yorker

Deep Learning’s Carbon Emission Problem, Forbes

AI’s Carbon Footprint Problem, Stanford

Training AI, MIT Technology Review

Best American Sci-Fi and Fantasy 2018, Edited by N.K. Jemisin

Tomorrow’s Eve, Auguste Villiers de I’lsle-Adam

The Sandman, E.T.A. Hoffmann

The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares

17th Century Theories of Consciousness

The Turing Test

Radio Playlist

1. The Futureheads - Robot

2. Holly Herndon & Spawn - Godmother

3. Spoozys - コンピューターは心をもつか (Can Computers Have a Mind)

4. Mica Levi - Lonely Void

5. Malajube - Le Robot Sexy

6. Astro Sounds from the Year 2000 - A Disappointing Love Affair with a Densensitized Robot

7. Vocoder - Amor De Robot

8. Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - I Am Become Death

9. Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - The Robots (Cha-Cha-Cha)

10. Oneohtrix Point Never - Computer Vision

11. Antònia Font - Jo, robot 

12. Units - Digital Stimulation 

13. SCNTST - Computers Do Have Souls

14. Jean Jacques Perrey and Daniel Longuein - Robotonic

15. They Might Be Giants - Robot Parade

16. Looper - My Robot 

17. Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness

18. The Juan Maclean - The Robot

19. 'Lectric Workers - Robot Is Systematic

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