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AI and the Financial Crisis

November 9th, 2008 – Joshua Fox

Thomas B. Edsall at the Huffington Post writes about the role of (narrow) AI in the recent financial crisis. He interviews Dr. Ben Goertzel, SIAI Director of Research; as well as Ray Kurzweil, member of the SIAI Board of Directors; with a mention of SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky, in “Man Versus Machine.”

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Nov 18, 2008 1:21 pm

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