Elon Musk has claimed'AI will be smarter than any human by the end of 2025' - and while that is just one year away, an expert said the prediction may still come true. Nell Watson, an AI expert and ethicist, has shared a detailed timeline of how the tech could transform from chatbots to super intelligent agents over the next 12 months. The path would start with a massive 100 billion investment in new computing infrastructure, then AI would learn how to self-improve until it becomes'conscious.' 'Although one year is a short time frame, remember that only 15 months have passed since ChatGPT's breakthrough, which thrust AI into the public consciousness, she told DailyMail.com. 'Developments continue at a frenetic pace since, and even appear to be rapidly accelerating.' Elon Musk has claimed'AI will be smarter than any human by the end of 2025' - and while that is just one year away, an expert said the prediction may still come true Watson, who is the author of'Taming the Machine: Ethically harness the power of AI,' described superhuman AI as systems that far exceed human capabilities across the board.

In a change to the regular format, we're asking members to grab a glass of their favourite tipple and join us for an inspiring and informal evening webinar with last year's phenomenal BIMA Conference keynote speaker Nell Watson, Futurist and Technology Philosopher. In a conversation with bestselling author, technologist and and CEO of Vala Health Pete Trainor, she will share her views on the current situation we find ourselves in and what's next. Eleanor'Nell' Watson is a Machine Intelligence researcher who helped to pioneer Deep Machine Vision at her company QuantaCorp, which enables fast and accurate body measurement from just two photos. In sharing her knowledge as AI Faculty at Singularity University and author of Machine Intelligence courseware for O'Reilly Media, she realised the importance of protecting human rights and putting ethics, safety, and the values of human spirit into A.I. Nell serves as Chair & Vice-Chair respectively of the IEEE's ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group, and P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on AI Ethics & Safety, engineering credit score-like mechanisms to safeguard algorithmic trust.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2019. Nell Watson - Founder of QuantaCorp, Engineer, Entrepreneur & Tech Philosopher ABSTRACT The emerging field of machine ethics offers a revolution in how ethical analyses and transactions can occur. By making ethical decisions computable, we can give a sense of morality to machine intelligence, such as autonomous vehicles and personal assistants. Learn how we can best program these fuzzy aspects of'humanity' into machine intelligence, in a way which respects differences of opinion and creeds, and yet provides adequate [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotoams.nl/2019/sessions/782 Get your ticket at http://gotocon.com

Forget your smartphones and other accessories: voice communication underpinned by artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be the basis for our connected day-to-day lives. And the shift has already begun! Some pointers: a recent survey, which polled a representative sample of 500 US residents, revealed that only 2% of iPhone users have never used the virtual assistant Siri. Meanwhile Google revealed during the Google IO developer festival held in Mountain View in May just how much emphasis the Internet giant is now placing on voice technology. In the very near future, voice might well be used to direct Google searches, a prospect which could explain the firm's massive investment in Google Assistant. Another pointer: we can count on seeing increasingly high-performance and lower-cost artificial intelligence tools.

In 1942, Russian science fiction writer Isaac Asimov drew up his'Three Laws of Robotics': 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. For 75 years, these clauses have inspired research and thinking on robot rights. They were even taken up in the first'Ethics Charter for Robots' drawn up by South Korea in 2007. However, today Asimov's laws seem rather simplistic and obsolete as they are centred on humans rather than robots. Nowadays ethics and the rights of machines are starting to go further.