Archive for May, 2010
May
31
2010
 
What Will the Blowback of Future Military Technologies be for Society? – See ResponsePosted by Frank Whittemore in Singularity CommentaryToday I suggest reading the response to my recent post titled – “What Will the Blowback of Future Military Technologies be for Society? Click here and scroll down a bit to do so.
May
30
2010
Facebook Obliterates Rivals in Google List of Top SitesPosted by Frank Whittemore in Accelerating Change, Event Coverage, GoogleThe goal with the Top 1000 Sites and other recent updates is to… Click here to see the entire article.
IBM’s Blue Gene brain simulation has made gains in one of the most sophisticated tasks man has ever taken on—creating artificial intelligence (AI). With the true AI milestone comes the dawn of the singularity, when computers overtake humans. Contributing editor Glenn Reynolds looks into the future and wonders; what happens after the singularity? December 18, 2009 3:30 AM TEXT SIZE: A . A . A When I spoke to technology pioneer and futurist Ray Kurzweil (who popularized the idea in his book The Singularity Is Near), he put it this way: “Within a quarter-century, nonbiological intelligence will match the range and subtlety of human intelligence. It will then soar past it.” Even before we reach that point, Kurzweil and his peers foresee breathtaking advances. Scientists in Israel have developed tiny robots to crawl through blood vessels attacking cancers, and labs in the United States are working on similar technology. These robots will grow smaller and more capable. One day, intelligent nanorobots may be integrated into our bodies to clear arteries and rebuild failing organs, communicating with each other and the outside world via a “cloud” network. Tiny bots might attach themselves to neurons in the brain and add their processing power–and that of other computers in the cloud–to ours, giving us mental resources that would dwarf anything available now. By stimulating the optic, auditory or tactile nerves, such nanobots might be able to simulate vision, hearing or touch, providing “augmented reality” overlays identifying street names, helping with face recognition or telling us how to repair things we’ve never seen before. Scientists in Japan are already producing rudimentary nanobot “brains.” Could it take decades for these technologies to come to fruition? Yes–but only decades, not centuries. The result may be what Kurzweil calls “an intimate merger between the technology-creating species and the technological evolutionary process it spawned.” If scientists can integrate tiny robots into the human body, then they can build tiny robots into, well, everything, ushering in an era of “smart matter.” Nanobots may be able to build products molecule-by-molecule, making the material world look a lot like the computer world–with just about everything becoming smart, cheap and networked to pretty much everything else, including your brain. It’s almost impossibly futuristic-sounding stuff. But even that scenario is just the precursor to the Singularity itself, the moment when, in Kurzweil’s words, “nonbiological intelligence will have access to its own design and will be able to improve itself in an increasingly rapid redesign cycle.” Imagine computers so advanced that they can design and build new, even better computers, with subsequent generations emerging so quickly they soon leave human engineers the equivalent of centuries behind. That’s the Singularity–and given the exponential acceleration of technological change, it could come by midcentury. But Is It for Real? Still, I’m describing a world in which nanotechnology makes us (nearly) immortal, in which robots can make almost any object from cheap raw materials (basically, dirt) and in which ordinary people are smarter than Einstein thanks to brain implants–but still nowhere near as smart as fully artificial intelligences. That’s a world that’s hard to imagine. And what we do imagine can sound either good or bad. On the upside, what’s not to like about being super-smart and healthy, with access to most products essentially for free? On the downside, could always-on links from our brains to the computing cloud lead to Star Trek’s über-totalitarian Borg collective or something equally scary? And, what happens to those computer-brain interfaces and nanobots when they’re taken over by the descendants of the Conficker worm? Now there’s an argument for strong antivirus software. Dramatically enhancing human capabilities for good, alas, also means enhancing human capabilities for evil. That’s something famed computer science professor and writer Vernor Vinge warns about: technology that could, as he wrote in his novel Rainbows End, “put world-killer weapons into the hands of anyone having a bad-hair day.” Then there’s the mind-control problem. Nanorobots floating around in your bloodstream could keep your coronary arteries from clogging, but they also could release drugs on command, making you, say, literally love Big Brother. Knowing what we know about human history, do such abuses seem terribly unlikely? Of course, the problem may never come up. Vinge, who originated the Singularity idea, has written about why it may never arrive–though he’s betting the other way. So what can we do now to affect how things turn out? Some people are trying. The Foresight Institute has published guidelines for developing nanotechnology, such as a ban on self-replicating nanobots that function independently (potentially turning the whole world into more nanobots, something known in the trade as the gray-goo problem) and sharp limitations on weapons-related nanotech research. Researchers in artificial intelligence are working on guidelines for producing “friendly AI” that would be well-disposed toward humans as part of their programming, thus foreclosing any pesky robotic world-domination ambitions. NASA, Google and others have even started something called the Singularity University to study ways to avoid problems while still reaping the benefits. Some have suggested that we ought to go slow on the so-called GRAIN technologies (Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Nanotechnology). Sun Microsystems’ Bill Joy has even called for “relinquishing” some technologies he sees as dangerous. But I wonder if that’s such a good idea. Destructive technologies generally seem to come along sooner than constructive ones–we got war rockets before missile interceptors, and biological warfare before antibiotics. This suggests that there will be a window of vulnerability between the time when we develop technologies that can do dangerous things, and the time when we can protect against those dangers. The slower we move, the longer that window may remain open, leaving more time for the evil, the unscrupulous or the careless to wreak havoc. My conclusion? Faster, please. cialis overnight Phentermine On Line viagra pill pictures
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May
28
2010
What Will the Blowback of Future Military Technologies be for Society?Posted by Frank Whittemore in Singularity CommentaryThe current pace of technological innovation inside the U.S. military could mean a future in which cyborg insects track the movement of private citizens and humans communicate telepathically, finally putting an end to the belief in real privacy… Click here for access to the entire article and an extremely thought provoking video. Share
May
27
2010
First Human Infected with Computer VirusPosted by Frank Whittemore in !Interviews, Ethics/Dangers, Event Coverage, RFID
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 By achieving an optimal approach with robotic mechanisms, studies are moving closer to robots that could take on dangerous missions in the military, create prosthetic limbs for humans that work much better, or even help some people who use wheelchairs to gain “walking” abilities. The newest findings from the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at OSU are being presented at two conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation. “Researchers have been working toward robot locomotion for a long time based mostly on experience and intuition,” said Jonathan Hurst, an assistant professor of robotics and mechanical design at OSU. “What we’ve done is taken a step back to analyze the fundamental dynamics of the mechanical system, what behavior is really possible for a given robotic system. A rock can’t fly, no matter what software you write for it. more>>> cialis perscription drug stores! Green Tea Hoodia Cialis cheap online direct viagra cialis online sales 910.
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May
24
2010
Environmentalists Fight to Keep Synthetic Life in LabPosted by Frank Whittemore in Ethics/Dangers, Genetics, Scientific ResearchCraig Venter, a multi-millionaire geneticist, last week announced that he had made a living cell from artificial chromosomes, paving the way for the creation of more complex synthetic organisms. Now a Canadian environmental group aims to ensure the new life forms are never released into nature… Click here for the complete article. Click here
May
23
2010
Humans: Why They TriumphedPosted by Frank Whittemore in Accelerating Change, Economics, Genetics, Singularity CommentaryHow did one ape 45,000 years ago happen to turn into a planet dominator? The answer lies in an epochal collision of creativity… Click here for the entire Wall Street Journal article by Matt Ridley. Click here
May
21
2010
Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrongPosted by Chris Williamson in Physics, Scientific Research The velocity of a microscopic bead has been measured for the first time, contradicting a century-old claim by Albert Einstein. The same technology used to make the measurement may eventually be used to force such beads to exhibit quantum mechanical behaviour that is normally seen in subatomic objects. Microscopic particles in liquid or gas undergo Brownian motion – jittery, random movements that are the result of countless collisions with neighbouring molecules. Albert Einstein studied this motion, and in 1907, he predicted that a microscopic particle’s kinetic energy – and thus the square of its velocity – should be proportional to the temperature of its surroundings. But directly testing this idea, which is called the equipartition theorem, is difficult to do for Brownian particles. That’s because the many collisions experienced by the particle cause it to change speed and direction extremely quickly. more>>>
May
21
2010
Synthetic life breakthrough could be worth over a trillion dollarsPosted by Chris Williamson in Accelerating Change, Genetics, Scientific ResearchSynthetic life breakthrough could be worth over a trillion dollars US geneticist Craig Venter’s ambition is to create organisms that are not only new, but lucrative Genetic entrepreneur Craig Venter explains how his team of researchers created a new life form – and what happens next Link to this video It was a dream that began nearly 15 years ago, when Craig Venter, a Vietnam veteran turned geneticist, resolved one day to create a genome from scratch – and with it, make the first ever synthetic life form. Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA. more>>>
May
21
2010
Craig Venter Creates First Synthetic Self-Replicating Bacteria from ScratchPosted by Frank Whittemore in Event Coverage, Genetics, Scientific ResearchVenter took synthetic biology to the next level: programming life… Click here for the complete report. You may have to scroll down a bit to see it. Click here
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