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If you wantartificial intelligenceto have human ethics, you have to teach it to evolve ethics like we do. At least that’s what a pair of researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, India proposed in a pre-print paper published today. Titled “AI and the Sense of Self,”the paperdescribes a methodology called “elastic identity” by which the researchers say AI might learn to gain a greater sense of agency while simultaneously understanding how to avoid “collateral damage....

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more....

Sharing media on Twitter has become a hot topic over the past week,particularly with users of Twitpic, the most popular photo sharing platform for Twitter users after it changed its terms to indicate it would sell user photos to media organisations. With many users looking to find an alternative photo sharing service, users are forced to search Google for other services or use those that their friends are publishing their photos too....

Earlier this month, fresh rumours about Google’s social network, now apparently called Circles, appearedonline. It’s supposed to launch next May, but to be honest, I hope it won’t. Because while it does make sense for Google to try to conquer each and every bit of the web, I don’t feel like an additional social network is a particularly useful addition to my Google account, not one I’m waiting for at least....

The speculation of the month seems to be how long will Google+ last? Does the social network have what it takes to stick around for the long haul? Or is Google’s latest offering too little too late? It’s become virtually impossible to avoid articles wondering whether Google+ could easily end up like Buzz or Wave, or finding a diatribe as to why the hurtling growth numbers don’t mean anything, or how the site doesn’t really compare to Facebook or Twitter....