The Information Revelation

Last updated on: February 13, 2018 at 4:35 am By Michael Paulus

Luciano Floridi, who has been developing the philosophy of information as a new area of inquiry since the late 1990s, argues we are living through a scientific revolution that is changing how we understand our nature and our role in the universe. Floridi identifies this as the fourth major revolution of the modern era to transform how we see ourselves and the world. The first of these revolutions, following Copernicus, established a heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth and humanity... Read more

Going to School on AlphaGo: the science and beauty of learning

Last updated on: February 8, 2018 at 5:27 pm By Bruce Baker

“Beauty is a signpost to deep learning.“ The 2017 prize-winning documentary, “AlphaGo” tells the story of the computer program that beat the world’s #1 Go professional, Lee Sedol, in March 2016. It’s a great movie and inspiring story. AI experts figured it might be decades before a computer could beat the world champ. But backed by the deep pockets of Google, the team at DeepMind software (Google’s huge machine learning project) created a computer program that mastered the game... Read more

The Beginning of Digital Wisdom

Last updated on: February 6, 2018 at 4:52 am By Michael Paulus

Within the last thirty years, internet, social media, and mobile technologies have transformed the ways we interact with information, each other, and the world. In addition to these nearly ubiquitous technologies, we are witnessing the rapid advance of new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, augmented and mixed reality, and the Internet of Things. All of these new and emerging technologies raise fundamental and new questions about what we can know, what we may hope for, what... Read more