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Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and the purpose of human life? Martin Eiermann sat down with the computer scientist Stephen Wolfram to discuss these questions. Via Andrea Graziano 
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December 21, 2012 6:32 AM
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Friends, a new world is waiting for all of us. It is a world without want, where every need is satisfied by boundless resources. It is a world of friendship, where war does not exist. And when we get there, we'll achieve immortality. I'm not talking about Heaven, Nirvana, or some other religious tenet - I'm talking about the future according to Singularity University. But is it really as close as the Singularity folks say?
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'Man is something that shall be overcome,' wrote Nietzsche. He may have never envisioned today's efforts to re-engineer the body, but he looks prophetic as pioneers aim to push the envelope of human capability.
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July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Raymond Kurzweil, Chairman, CEO, founder at Kurzweil Technologies describes what he sees in the future of robotics, with a human-computer `singularity' by 2029 where computers will rival and supplement human intelligence. Via FutureCast
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Soon, we will be able to build computers with artificial intelligence and processing power that rivals the human brain. Intelligence will be everywhere, embedded in our clothing, our vehicles and homes. Intelligent robots will serve us - until they don't feel like doing so anymore. And what happens then...? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277322/plotsummary
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Even for our greatest philosopher of the surreal, Sigmund Freud, reality remained rooted in the personal and social. A century on, however, technology is granting us the ability to alter our perception of reality, construct multiple representations of ourselves like avatars, and have relationships with artificial agents like robots. All of these are simultaneously expanding and destabilizing our sense of self. Via juandoming
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Just like the creations which emerge from their printers, 3D Systems is incrementally growing. The high-end 3D printer maker is continuing its effort to acquire companies that will enable it to break into the consumer market. Their latest acquisition is Bespoke Innovations which uses 3D printing to manufacture custom-made – and singularly beautiful – prosthetic limbs.
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Conceiving of an AI in a black box is a good approach if we want to test how a particular system should react when working with the AI and focusing on the system we’re trying to test by mocking the AI’s responses down the chain of events. Think of it as dependency injection with an AI interfacing system. But by abstracting the AI away, what we’ve also done is made it impossible to test the inner workings of the AI system.
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Forget about The Terminator, the real problem with AI (artificial intelligence) is what to do when it meets your boss or even your friends. This is not the pitch for some kind of sci-fi rom-com, but rather the genuine concern of Dr Stuart Armstrong, a research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. His job is to think about future threats to the human race and how to confront them.
More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
More on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=artificial%20intelligence Via The Robot Launch Pad, Szabolcs Kósa
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A group of American researchershave developed Brainput -- pronounced brain-put, not bra-input -- a system that can detect when your brain is busy, and offload some of your workload to a computer. More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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![Awakening: Synthetic Biology on the Verge of Revolutionizing the Evolution of Life [Videos] | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/dOEoIHb-K4D6cqmsTlO4LTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
"Synthetic biology" is the next stage in the evolution of biology as a science. In its purest form, and indeed for purists, it emerged as the idea of applying engineering principles to life science: characterising and cataloguing bits of DNA so they can be assembled into unnatural genetic circuits.
More on... SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=synthetic%20biology
Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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This video maps out Kurzweil's SIX EPOCHS OF EVOLUTION showing the exponential progression in the way the universe stores and processes information... what we see is a bootstrapping recursive complexification leading us towards some kind of intelligence singularity.
Created for Educational Purposes Only and non-commercial use by Jason Silva. Created to inspire.
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John Smart, co-founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation—an organization dedicated to the study of maintaining brain function after our biological death—argues that the "redundant, resilient and distributed" nature of long-term memory makes it possible to preserve significant portions of our identity after death.
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From the beginning, people saw computers as "almost-alive" or "sort of alive." With the computer, object relations psychoanalysis can be applied to, well, objects. People feel at one with video games, with lines of computer code, with the avatars they play in virtual worlds, with their smartphones. When our current digital devices—our smartphones and cellphones—take on the power of transitional objects, a new psychology comes into play. These digital objects are never meant to be abandoned. We are meant to become cyborg.
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He is one of the world's most renowned futurists, and at South By Southwest, he outlined his vision for a future of artificial intelligence, where humans no longer die (#followmejp Inside the Mind of Futurist Ray Kurzweil: When Robots Rule the World... Via Abel Revoredo
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See what AT&T has in store for the future in the second installment of their You Will commercials.
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The robotics industry is on the cusp of a major transformation. Today’s factory robots are solitary precision instruments, mimicking the repertoire of capabilities of skilled craftsmen while repeating a handful of tasks thousands of times over. But future factory robots will likely have to be capable of thousands of tasks, performing each only several times, and they will work in collaboration with humans. More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Although Lev Grossman’s article is mostly a regurgitatingly obnoxious form of worship of one of the more active frontmen for Transhumanism, Raymond Kurzweil, the article does reveal some extraordinary information. Namely, that there are very powerful and wealthy individuals whose goal it is to see the merging of man and machine, and the complete transformation of humanity into something much different than it currently is. Via ABroaderView
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Bruce Hood, a psychologist at the University of Bristol, in his excellent new book, The Self Illusion, seeks to understand how the singularity of the self emerges from the cacophony of mind and the mess of social life.
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Bableverse creators quote a Google translation executive saying that machine translation cannot be improved upon until we reach the singularity, a point where the physical distinction between man and machine is erased. Until then, combining machine intelligence with human nuance will prove the next best thing.
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Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans.
More on SINGULARITY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=singularity Via Paulo Furtado
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Ericsson aims to turn our anatomy into a USB key -- a bridge between gadgets with its 'Connected Me' technology. Via brianlmerritt
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