Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
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 
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
December 21, 2012 6:32 AM
Thank you Andrea
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
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.
Scoop.it!
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
Scoop.it!
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
Scoop.it!
![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
Scoop.it!
From
bigthink
Computer engineers in California and New York want to create a hybrid of the man and machine techniques for classifying and recommending music.
Scoop.it!
The Six Epochs of Life are futurist's Ray Kurzweil’s interpretation of evolution from the Big Bang to the Singularity and, like the subject matter, the mural itself evolved over time. The path and flashes of light are meant to represent...
Scoop.it!
Ever wondered how you were supposed to keep up with the never-ending stream of content and data in your life? Not to worry, the elves of the Internet are busy at work, creating everything from magical little algorithms that automatically execute basic tasks to sophisticated utility apps that run in the background, taking care of all the minutiae in your daily life. Forget about hiring a personal assistant, you can “hire” off-the-shelf algorithms and digital apps that do all the heavy lifting for you. If that doesn't work, just ask Siri. Your life is an algorithm, your brain is an operating system, now go get some sleep.
Scoop.it!
Soldiers controlling bipedal robot surrogates on the battlefield?
Scoop.it!
This video is inspired by the new book ABUNDANCE, written by X-Prize Founder and Singularity University co-founder, Peter Diamandis and writer Steven Kotler. In it, they explain how exponentially emerging technologies can be leveraged to address humanity's grand challenges...
Scoop.it!
We are living in the future -- Keiichi Matsuda knows that. Working from London and Tokyo, the 27-year-old designer and filmmaker creates inn...
Scoop.it!
Stanford's newly renovated Virtual Human Interaction Lab was specifically designed for psychological experimentation in virtual worlds, says Associate Professor of Communication Jeremy Bailenson. "We integrate three virtual senses in a way that's very psychologically persuasive -- sight, sound and touch." The state-of-the-art lab also offers a glimpse of the near future in household entertainment. "We're using this cutting-edge lab to try to think ahead by a few years to predict what household technology is going to be like and how that's going to affect people," Bailenson said.
|
Scoop.it!
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.
Scoop.it!
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.
Scoop.it!
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
Scoop.it!
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
Scoop.it!
From
www
Ericsson aims to turn our anatomy into a USB key -- a bridge between gadgets with its 'Connected Me' technology. Via brianlmerritt
Scoop.it!
The electro-type, the Electro Sapien, will expand conscious access to brain realism, merge — through miraculous data crunching — our insipid linear perception of reality with actual multidimensional reality. He will abstract linear thinking, see and analyse in greater detail the sapient mass of present time. He will feed on vision and memory connectivity stored in all constructs of matter, and harness integration of individual electric signatures with the internet’s electric signature. He won’t fear death, nor personal identity dissolution and insignificance.
Scoop.it!
Every week Aaron Saenz will bring you a recap of the top stories from SingularitiyHub.com This week we discuss Google's Project Glasses, the Robo-ONE competition, Boston Dynamics' Sand Flea, Printable robots, the Curiosity Rover, and there's even a bit that rhymes. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
Scoop.it!
Computer science researchers at Northwestern University have developed a way to exert limited control on how people move, pushing them out of their regular travel patterns. The key: tapping into some of their cell phone applications.
Scoop.it!
RT @ChrisBarnatt: New article explaining the concept of "The Singularity": http://t.co/HOyJ8npW #singularity... Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
Scoop.it!
For decades, neuroscientists have sought to use electronics to communicate with the brain. Computing and surgical technique have now become sophisticated enough to implant devices directly into neural tissue. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=7&tag=neuroscience
Scoop.it!
To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix has commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation. How far are we from the future presented to us in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION?
Scoop.it!
Freaky AI robot, taken from Nova science now, here's the full episode, enjoy :D http://video.pbs.org/video/1801365037 Also yay for me, 2 videos in one day :D :D... Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
|
Can cells become little computers?