Let’s just hope Novamente can create an AI that can beat DARPA’s if it decides to take out humanity.

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Let’s face it, we’re not going to just start off with computers flying humans around right away. The first space shuttles were, after all, unmanned for good reasons. We have to learn to crawl before we can learn to walk, lest we trip and smash our head against the pavement. Delivery of lighter objects than humans is a good place to start. Sure, we do have a flying car already, notably the Terrafugia Transition, but it’s really more of a driving plane. It’s not the VTOL we’ve dreamed of for decades. Developing a well functioning delivery drone network will pave the way for confidence in a practical network of drones delivering people. Humans have notoriously poor navigation skills in three-dimensional environments, so unmanned aerial vehicles seem a safer option than those prone to human error.

Yale has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle that can pick up your mail or your beer without landing…

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Dubbed Blue Brain, the simulation shows some strange behavior. The artificial “cells” respond to stimuli and suddenly pulse and flash in spooky unison, a pattern that isn’t programmed but emerges spontaneously.

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Judging by the audience of several hundred, the topic of artificial intelligence, the singularity, and their societal implications are of interest across all demographics…

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Click on Yale bioethicist Wendell Wallach’s book’s title
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
to learn more about his book.

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Kevin Warwick is an internationally renowned Professor and researcher in the field of Cybernetics from the University of Reading, England. His work in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, human control functions, robotics and cybernetic organisms presented here shows how implant and electrode technology can be used to create biological brains for robots, to enable human enhancement and possible therapeutic effects for neurological illness.

In any case, the end goal is human enhancement, or “transhumanism”, which inevitably stirs up many social, ethical and philosophical questions.

Kevin Warwick - The Cyborg Experiments from Richard Prins on Vimeo.

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Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy.

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We should open our minds to the limitless, mind-boggling possibilities…

Click here for the article found on the Vanity Fair website. Also, be sure to watch the “The Turning Into Gods” trailer.

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Pentagon backs neural reverse-engineering effort…

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Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String Field Theory and is the author of international best-selling books such as Hyperspace, Visions, and Beyond Einstein. Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.

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Journal of Evolution and Technology. 1998. Vol. 1

ABSTRACT

This paper describes how the performance of AI machines tends to improve at the same pace that AI researchers get access to faster hardware. The processing power and memory capacity necessary to match general intellectual performance of the human brain are estimated. Based on extrapolation of past trends and on examination of technologies under development, it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s.

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What does a Singularity look like with just nanotech and narrow AI?

Click here for a fascinating article found on the h+ Magazine website.

Click here for more information on the FREE book “Engines of Creation 2.0: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology - Updated and Expanded” by K. Eric Drexler.

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WHY PEOPLE THINK COMPUTERS CAN’T

Marvin Minsky, MIT

First published in AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Fall 1982. Reprinted in
Technology Review, Nov/Dec 1983, and in The Computer Culture,
(Donnelly, Ed.) Associated Univ. Presses, Cranbury NJ, 1985

Most people think computers will never be able to think. That is, really
think. Not now or ever. To be sure, most people also agree that computers
can do many things that a person would have to be thinking to do. Then
how could a machine seem to think but not actually think? Well, setting
aside the question of what thinking actually is, I think that most of us
would answer that by saying that in these cases, what the computer is
doing is merely a superficial imitation of human intelligence. It has been
designed to obey certain simple commands, and then it has been provided
with programs composed of those commands. Because of this, the
computer has to obey those commands, but without any idea of what’s
happening.

Indeed, when computers first appeared, most of their designers intended
them for nothing only to do huge, mindless computations. That’s why the
things were called “computers”. Yet even then, a few pioneers —
especially Alan Turing — envisioned what’s now called “Artificial
Intelligence” - or “AI”. They saw that computers might possibly go
beyond arithmetic, and maybe imitate the processes that go on inside
human brains.

Today, with robots everywhere in industry and movie films, most people
think Al has gone much further than it has. Yet still, “computer experts”
say machines will never really think. If so, how could they be so smart,
and yet so dumb?

================== CAN MACHINES BE CREATIVE? ==================

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