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The Current State of AI as We Begin 2018

CESRAN Int.1 January 20181 January 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) states one recent article is no smarter than a six-year-old. A study that appeared last summer compared the intelligence quotient (IQ) of Google, Apple, Baidu, and Bing AI to the average human...

CESRAN Blog International Economics

Artificial Intelligence: ‘Frankenstein’ or Capitalist Money Machine

CESRAN Int.4 March 20175 March 2017

Introduction The Financial Times’ Special Report (2/16/2017) published a four-page spread on the ‘use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)’. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington’s...

CESRAN Blog Michael Roberts

Robots and AI: Utopia or Dystopia? (II)

CESRAN Int.30 August 201530 August 2015

In my first post on Robots and AI, I dealt with the impact of these new technologies on future employment and productivity. I raised the contradiction that develops within the...

CESRAN Blog Michael Roberts

Robots and AI: Utopia or Dystopia? (I)

CESRAN Int.30 August 201530 August 2015

I did a recent post on Paul Mason’s new book, Postcapitalism, which argued that the internet, automation, robots and artificial intelligence were creating a new economy which could not be...