Tag Archives: artificial intelligence
Ray Kurzweil interviewed on PBS
Charlie Rose is an American television talk show host and journalist that engages Americas best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmakers in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions. Recently he had the opportunity to interview Ray … Continue reading
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Artificial retinas see well enough to balance a pencil
A team of researchers has built a neural information system that is good enough and fast enough to balance a pencil in real time. If you think it’s an easy task, try it. Building a machine to balance a pencil … Continue reading
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The New AI: An interview with Juergen Schmidhuber
Here’s an interview with a very interesting individual Juergen Schmidhuber, a German artificial intelligence researcher who has worked on recurrent neural networks, Godel machines, universal learning algorithms, artificial evolution, robotics, and neural network based financial forecasting. From 2004 to 2009 … Continue reading
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TIME Magazine’s 10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil, an American author, inventor and futurist has been discussed on my blog in many previous posts. He has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine … Continue reading
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Life Extension
Humanity+ Conference Caltech December 4th-5th
There’s a very important conference going on this weekend in the USA. If you’re in California, please try to attend the Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change on December 4-5th at the Beckman Institute … Continue reading
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Poll – What area of life extension do you think offers the best perspective?
Filed under Life Extension
Futurology. Table of Contents.
Futurology studies the implementation probability of various scenarios of possible and disirable future of humanity based on historical regularities, social trends and technological achievements. The field of study focuses on current and past trends of what has been taking place … Continue reading
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What Will the Human Brain of the Future Look Like?
Due to rising interest in artificial intelligence research, I have been pondering this question lately and wanted to share some views on this subject. I think the question is actually rather, what might the human ‘mind’ of the future look … Continue reading
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