Lifeboat Foundation

Marco Monfils is an independent business advisor and strategic thinker. For Lifeboat Foundation, he writes about the future of humanity’s involvement with societal decision-making as we race into the singularity and beyond.

50 posts by Marco Monfils

• Anthropic cracks open the black box to see how AI comes up with the stuff it says – August 14, 2023
• Philosophy & Literature on ‘Aristotle’s Paradox of Time’ – June 5, 2023
• AI thoughts – May 19, 2023
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (Crisis in consciousness, Zeitgeist Addendum) – May 19, 2023
• Human thoughts about knowledge building, concluding and AI – May 19, 2023
• The 3 things an AI must demonstrate to be considered sentient – June 15, 2022
• The biggest problem in AI? Machines have no common sense – March 28, 2022
• The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve – March 11, 2022
• Universal basic income is here—it just looks different from what you expected – December 26, 2021
• So how about it; Would you like to try the decentralized red pill or continue taking the subtly flavored centralized blue pill? – December 25, 2021
• What If Doctors Are Always Watching, but Never There? – December 11, 2021
• China Pressuring Thailand for Thai Chana App Personal, Location Data – December 11, 2021
• Artificial intelligence and its ethics | DW Documentary – March 3, 2020
• A robot read 3.5 million books to see how we describe men and women differently – December 15, 2019
• Technological Singularity — Artificial Intelligence (AI) – December 13, 2019
• My Annual Conversation with Ray Kurzweil – December 12, 2019
• Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Mass Surveillance and Artificial General Intelligence – December 7, 2019
• Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible – November 27, 2019
• The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane – November 19, 2019
• We Attended an AI’s First Art Exhibit in NYC — Future Blink – October 21, 2019
• 5 + 1 Myths about Artificial Intelligence – October 18, 2019
• LinkedIn: AI thoughts; Does it make sense to develop common sense for AI? – October 4, 2019
• OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI – September 10, 2019
• Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second – September 8, 2019
• Maybe interesting for you too – September 5, 2019
• Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast – July 20, 2019
• A new chip lets robots “imagine” their actions before they make a move – June 18, 2019
• This Short Film Is Written Entirely By AI – June 4, 2019
• THIS is computer music: Ge Wang at TEDxStanford – May 8, 2019
• A machine has figured out Rubik’s Cube all by itself – May 8, 2019
• Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever – May 8, 2019
• VR and AR will expand the limits of human perception – March 28, 2019
• The Futurists (1967) | Scientists Predict The 21st Century – March 28, 2019
• Google AI Created It’s Own Child AI, That Is Superior Then Man Made Models – October 21, 2018
• AI will impact 100% of jobs, professions, and industries, says IBM’s Ginni Rometty – October 17, 2018
• Artifical intelligence and personal assistants put to the test — BBC Click – October 4, 2018
• Virtual and augmented reality will change our sense of a shared reality – September 30, 2018
• [EuroVis 2018] Maps and Globes in Virtual Reality (VR) – September 30, 2018
• How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think – September 25, 2018
• We Already are Artificial Intelligence – August 18, 2018
• Surfing the internet with your mind seems to be a great step forward – August 15, 2018
• Bionics in Real Life – July 24, 2018
• Why millennials are driving cashless revolution in China – July 23, 2018
• The Digital Poorhouse – July 23, 2018
• What Are The New Jobs In A Human + Machine World? – July 23, 2018
• This AI can see what you’re thinking — and draw a picture of it – July 22, 2018
• Douglas Hofstadter — Analogies are the core of thinking – July 21, 2018
• CogX 2018 — Professor Juergen Schmidhuber Director & Professor, The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA – USI & SUPSI – July 21, 2018
• AI beats doctors in diagnosis competition – July 21, 2018
• Creators of future AI must not be ideologues – July 21, 2018