Tag Archives: Singularity

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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Roboy the Humanoid Robot to Be Born in March 2013

Posted on December 30, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲   Roby the robot is coming. Roboy is a soft robot, i.e. with soft skin and natural movements, to enable living and interacting with humans. User-friendly assistance to humans is the primary purpose of Roboy, which would … Continue reading →

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AtlasProto Robot Walking the Gauntlet & Improving Abilities

Posted on October 27, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ The latest update from Boston Dynamics increases the creepiness, which seems inexorable, with Atlas the anthropomorphic robot. Regardless of assurances otherwise, this will not ultimately end well for humans. AtlasProto: Walking the Gauntlet Atlas is an anthropomorphic … Continue reading →

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Future of Humanity: Singularity or Decline?

Posted on October 4, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ Is Humanity on a Countdown to the Singularity? What is the future of humanity – the technological singularity or a decline? Either way, the futurists and pundits give us 20+ years for one or the other to … 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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Dmitry Itskov and Project Immortality 2045: Transplanting a Human Brain into an Avatar

Posted on August 20, 2012

▲ ▲ ▲ Dmitry Itskov is leading the Project 2045 We all have dreams in life and some have big dreams. A few have visions. A handful of people have visions that change the world. Dmitry Itskov is one of … 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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