The Technological Singularity
Managing the Journey
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Open AccessEvolutionary trade-offs associated with loss of PmrB function in host-adapted Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonises the upper airway of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, providing a reservoir of host-adapted genotypes that subsequently establish chronic lung infection. We previously experimentally...
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Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum induce different host cell responses at proteome-wide phosphorylation events; a step forward for uncovering the biological differences between these closely related parasites
Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum are closely related intracellular protozoan parasites and tissue cyst-forming Coccidia of the phylum Apicomplexa. There are remarkable similarities ...
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Introduction to the Technological Singularity
This chapter introduces the term technological singularity, and analyses the varying and ambiguous ways it is used. It looks at the difficulty in predicting what would happen with “human comparable” artificial...
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Racing to the precipice: a model of artificial intelligence development
This paper presents a simple model of an AI (artificial intelligence) arms race, where several development teams race to build the first AI. Under the assumption that the first AI will be very powerful and tra...
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Ghost Hunter – An Augmented Reality Ghost Busting Game
In Ghost Hunter the player can walk into any environment and hunt for ghosts. The game automatically generates a real time physical representation of the room using a combination of motion tracking, area learn...
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Outrunning the Law: Extraterrestrial Liberty and Universal Colonisation
In the depths of space, how will groups and individuals interact? What will the dynamics be when enforcement is in pursuit of criminals, or when powerful groups try to constrain the activities of lesser ones...
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How We’re Predicting AI – or Failing to
This paper will look at the various predictions that have been made about AI and propose decomposition schemas for analysing them. It will propose a variety of theoretical tools for analysing, judging and impr...
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Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Oracle AI
There is no strong reason to believe human level intelligence represents an upper limit of the capacity of artificial intelligence, should it be realized. This poses serious safety issues, since a superintelli...
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Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle AI
There is no strong reason to believe that human-level intelligence represents an upper limit of the capacity of artificial intelligence, should it be realized. This poses serious safety issues, since a superin...
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Open AccessTraining and learning for crisis management using a virtual simulation/gaming environment
Recent advances in computers, networking, and telecommunications offer new opportunities for using simulation and gaming as methodological tools for improving crisis management. It has become easy to develop v...
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Projective holonomy II: cones and complete classifications
The aim of this paper and its prequel is to introduce and classify the irreducible holonomy algebras of the projective Tractor connection. This is achieved through the construction of a ‘projective cone’, a Ri...
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Projective holonomy I: principles and properties
The aim of this paper and its sequel is to introduce and classify the holonomy algebras of the projective Tractor connection. After a brief historical background, this paper presents and analyses the projectiv...
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Ambient connections realising conformal Tractor holonomy
For a conformal manifold we introduce the notion of an ambient connection, an affine connection on an ambient manifold of the conformal manifold, possibly with torsion, and with conditions relating it to the c...
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Combined D1/D2 receptor stimulation under conditions of dopamine depletion impairs spatial working memory performance in humans
The mesocortical dopamine system is regarded as an important modulator of working memory. While it has been established that stimulation of the D1/D2 receptor in primates can improve spatial working memory perfor...
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Characterisation of proteins in scent marks: Proteomics meets semiochemistry
