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La prima intelligenza aliena che incontreremo potrebbe essere un'intelligenza robotica, il punto di incontro evolutivo tra esseri biologici e superintelligenze artificiali.
Susan Schneider, professoressa di filosofia alla University of Connecticut spiega perché andrebbe superato l'archetipo dell'alieno come omino verde.

"There's an important distinction here from just 'artificial intelligence'," Schneider told me. "I'm not saying that we're going to be running into IBM processors in outer space. In all likelihood, this intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand."

The reason for all this has to do, primarily, with timescales. For starters, when it comes to alien intelligence, there's what Schneider calls the "short window observation" -- the notion that, by the time any society learns to transmit radio signals, they're probably a hop-skip away from upgrading their own biology. It's a twist on the belief popularized by Ray Kurzweil that humanity's own post-biological future is near at hand.

"As soon as a civilization invents radio, they're within fifty years of computers, then, probably, only another fifty to a hundred years from inventing AI," Shostak said. "At that point, soft, squishy brains become an outdated model."

Robolaw è il documento, presentato alla Commissione Europea da parte di un team di ricerca italiano della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, che elenca alcune linee guida per determinare l'eventuale responsabilità in sede civile e penale in caso di errori da parte di robot, veicoli automatici, esoscheletri, protesi e in generale macchine dotate di intelligenza artificiale.

Vincere un milione di dollari a un quiz televisivo, in una partita di tre giorni contro due dei concorrenti più forti di ogni tempo, secondo voi dimostra di essere di fronte a un essere intelligente?
Se avete risposto sì allora dovreste riflettere sull'assunto che HAL 9000 è in mezzo a noi, si chiama Watson ed è stato sviluppato da IBM.

Vuoi il destino, vuoi il manico di un gigante della letteratura il nome HAL sarebbe un'invenzione di Clarke per citare l'IBM nel capolavoro 2001 Odissea nello spazio.
L'acronimo difatti non è nient'altro che il frutto dello spostamento di una lettera, secondo il cifrario di Cesare, del brand della multinazionale blu.

Watson's victory is the culmination of years of research and development for IBM. Watson calculates hundreds of algorithms simultaneously to parse human language complexities such as puns in order to find the answer through its massive database. The machine is powered by 90 32-core IBM Power 750 Express servers with a total of 16 terabytes of memory.

Le AI non si sono trasformate in cervelli pensanti dalle fattezze umanoidi, ma sono introno a noi ogni giorno e a malapena ce ne accorgiamo.
La fantascienza di HAL 9000 è più reale di quanto potremmo immaginare.

The fruits of the AI revolution are now all around us. Once researchers were freed from the burden of building a whole mind, they could construct a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would dispute possess something approaching intelligence. "If you told somebody in 1978, 'You're going to have this machine, and you'll be able to type a few words and instantly get all of the world’s knowledge on that topic,' they would probably consider that to be AI," Google cofounder Larry Page says. "That seems routine now, but it's a really big deal."

Even formerly mechanical processes like driving a car have become collaborations with AI systems. "At first it was the automatic braking system," Brooks says. "The person's foot was saying, I want to brake this much, and the intelligent system in the middle figured when to actually apply the brakes to make that work. Now you're starting to get automatic parking and lane-changing." Indeed, Google has been developing and testing cars that drive themselves with only minimal human involvement; by October, they had already covered 140,000 miles of pavement. [...]

In its earlier days, artificial intelligence was weighted with controversy and grave doubt, as humanists feared the ramifications of thinking machines. Now the machines are embedded in our lives, and those fears seem irrelevant. "I used to have fights about it," Brooks says. "I've stopped having fights. I'm just trying to win."