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The Road To Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on October 12th, 2017

When people start talking about the risks of AI they usually jump right to phase 3, Artifical Super Intelligence (ASI) or they might prefer to talk about conscious AI. That seems a ways off and mostly like science fiction. This tendency often causes th...

Will a true artificial intelligence have a soul?

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on June 4th, 2014

Since the movie "Transcendence" came out in 2014 there has been a lot of talk about the implication of loading consciousness on computers. As the movie illustrates, this can be a pretty controversial subject. When it comes to talking about the soul,...

Comment guerrilla activism

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 4th, 2014

Published originally on flash-actionscript-guru.com in 2008. This article is quite dated and is now standard practice for what is today called "activist trolling." Internet Guerrilla Activism: Using Internet Reviews and Comments to Hit Them Where It...

Is technology destroying high art?

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on December 14th, 2013

Is your vision of the future one in which we are all mindless drones who don't know how to make anything?I'd like to try and ease your mind. "The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human...

Review of "The History of Video Games"

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 4th, 2012

Book Review: The Ultimate History of Video Games I'll keep this simple. This is an enjoyable book to read, click here to check it out on Amazon.com The "Ultimate History of Video Games" is a must for any industry professional in the game industry....

UI design for tweens, 8-13 year olds

Published by Nicholas Dunbar on February 2nd, 2012

Here is what I learned working on a virtual world for kids. I had the pleasure of working on a virtual world for 8-13 year olds called green.com we tracked the user behavior of tens of thousands of tomorrows users and learned the most effective UI me...