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Given the rate of current technological change and innovation, we can safely assume that future technologies will be powerful and society altering.
Did you know that there is a group working on creating a generally intelligent AI system that would be able to learn like a human infant? The success of this project could be an amazing thing.
People must be acutely aware of the possibilities of future technology. We choose the future world that we live in by the decisions that we make now.
Did you know that there is a group working on creating a generally intelligent AI system that would be able to learn like a human infant? The success of this project could be an amazing thing.
People must be acutely aware of the possibilities of future technology. We choose the future world that we live in by the decisions that we make now.
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The Future of Machine Intelligence | h+ MagazineBen Goertzel's Report on AGI-09: The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, March 6-9, Arlington Virginia, USA In early March 2009, 100 intellectual adventurers journeyed from various corners of Europe, Asia, America and Australasia to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Arlington ...
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Nietzche, the Overhuman, and TranshumanismBostrom rejects Nietzsche as an ancestor of the transhumanist movement, as he claims that there were merely some “surface-level similarities with the Nietzschean vision” (Bostrom 2005a, 4). In contrast to Bostrom, I think that significant similarities between the posthuman and the overhuman can ...
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Memory Switch Could Enable Brain Hacks | Wired Science from Wired.comForget the memory-boosting pills: In the future, powers of recall could be boosted with programs on a handheld PDA. Researchers have found a telltale mental signature that predicts whether an experience will be remembered. Once deciphered, the signals could be used to help people know when ...
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BBC SPORT | Olympics | Fina cracks down on hi-tech suitsWorld swimming governing body Fina has moved to limit the impact of the controversial hi-tech swimsuits. Last year saw an astonishing 108 world records broken, 79 of them by swimmers wearing one suit, the Speedo LZR Racer. But following a three-day meeting in Dubai, Fina has stipulated ...
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Post-Humanity | Science Not Fiction | Discover MagazineThe future belongs to the post-human, suggests an increasing number of science-fiction writers and serious futurologists (in some cases, they are one and the same person). Post-humanity arises when people and machines merge to create sentient individuals that have capabilities (and possibly ...
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Social interactions can alter gene expression in the brain, and vice versaBees are models of optimally cooperative collective behavior. We can learn alot about the way robots/agi will behave from the ancient biological bee hive model. What goes on in their brains?
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