Tag Archives: Computers

Ray Kurzweil Joins Google to Create a Mind

Posted on February 5, 2013

▲ ▲ ▲ Ray Kurzweil has joined Google as Director of Engineering to improve artificial intelligence – or transbiological intelligence as Kurzweil terms it. Known for his latest book, How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil has literally teamed with Google … Continue reading →

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The New Era of Cognitive Computing

Posted on January 27, 2013

▲ ▲ ▲ The New Era of Cognitive Computing is upon us. This is not an incremental change and increase in technology. This is a fundamental and exponential rise in non-biological or artificial intelligence. New Era of Cognitive Computing We … Continue reading →

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Economic Evolution: Robots Taking Human Jobs

Posted on January 20, 2013

▲ ▲ ▲ Economic evolution has become robots taking human jobs. Artificial intelligence is replacing human intelligence. Technology, specifically algorithms, continues to replace humans in more and more complex jobs. These include military, financial, industrial, and service applications. In fact, … Continue reading →

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Random or Designed Universe: Are Humans Real?

Posted on January 9, 2013

▲ ▲ ▲ Hubble eXtreme Deep Field: a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the Universe Cosmologist Martin Rees explores and discusses the Universe and asks questions such do we live in a random or designed Universe, where … Continue reading →

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Development of a Galaxy: NASA Simulation Spans 13.5 Billion Years

Posted on November 14, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ NASA – Computer Model Shows a Disk Galaxy’s Life History This cosmological simulation follows the development of a single disk galaxy over about 13.5 billion years, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present time. Colors … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence Maps the Universe: An Algorithm’s View

Posted on September 26, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ How does an algorithm view the Universe, if all the known variables are provided? Artificial intelligence can balance all these variables, crunch the simultaneous equations, much better than some top-tier, but outdated, hominid on a (much) slower … Continue reading →

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Ray Kurzweil: Technological Singularity, Immortality, Bringing Back the Dead

Posted on August 7, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ Ray Kurzweil: Biological and non-biological intelligence and thinking will merge Prepare to evolve as Ray Kurzweil takes us for a fast ride into the future where both reality and human thinking change! A series of 3 interviews … Continue reading →

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Algorithms That Learn: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Posted on August 7, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ A system is intelligent if it is more useful to talk about in terms of goals than in terms in mechanisms. ~ Richard Sutton The above quote that an intelligent system has goals is skirting the edges … Continue reading →

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Vernor Vinge Discusses the Singularity, Future, Possibilities: “The human era will be ended”

Posted on August 6, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ Countdown to the Singularity Vernor Vinge on the Technological Singularity Vernor Vinge can rightly be called the Father of the Technological Singularity and came up with the term itself. Vinge thinks the technological singularity will occur no later … Continue reading →

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The Thirteenth Floor: Realities Within Realities

Posted on July 26, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ Nested and Interconnected Realities Nothing like stacking simulated realities on top of simulated realities and/or interconnecting realities to mix events up! Then the question of “What is real?” begins to confuse a wandering soul! See The Thirteenth Floor … Continue reading →

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Global Future and the Technological Singularity: A New Era for Humanity

Posted on June 11, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ The world is on the verge of global change. The rate of globally significant events, and that of discoveries and crises, is growing exponentially. We are facing the choice: To fall into a new Dark Age – … Continue reading →

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