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I saw this one in the Post this morning.

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Hurray! Scientists in Italy have achieved the greatest (to my mind) challenge in AI:
Scientists Create Coffee-Making Robot

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Ray Kruzweil has predicted ‘human-level’ AI by 2029. The BBC article is here:
Machines ‘to match man by 2029′

I’m not an AI skeptic - I wouldn’t be in this specialization if I were - but I get really sick of these predictions. My father tells a (possibly) apocryphal story of sitting in Marvin Minsky’s […]

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While looking for something totally unrelated to AI, I came across this article on asharq alawsat - ‘the Leading Arabic Daily English edition’.
Can a Machine Issue Islamic Fatwas?
There isn’t enough detail in the article to glean anything specific about the programming of the Electronic Mufti, but it does raise some interesting issues in metaethics.

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