So here is a very interesting article about substrate-independent minds, brain copying and mind uploading.
Randal Koene lets us in on the thoughts and issues that arose from a discussion around these topics with some colleagues and we are all the wiser for it.
In this video, we can see a demo of a swarm of robots with different capabilities working towards a common goal. It is still clearly very incipient technology, but the concept is a very important one. Also this is the first demonstration I am aware of that combines multiple different elements in such a way.
Please note that the next meeting will be held a day later than was previously scheduled. Check it all out at the announcement post.
Back in January a significant percentage of IEET‘s readers said they’d never give robots human rights, because “robots aren’t human”. Which is a fair point, I suppose, if you take the phrasing literally, but I do think that “human rights” was meant as a proxy term for whatever passes for “human” in the future, when robots and [...]
In preparation for the upcoming oneoverzero 16 meeting, under the topic “ethics in AI, robotics, etc”, you can find a very interesting series of interviews on these topics linked from the Moral Machines blog, called “Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems, Interviews”.
The interviews cover a wide range of topics and are generally very interesting with insights [...]
[ August 26, 2011; 18:00 to 23:00. ] TL;DR- Meeting on friday, August the 26th, at 18h00 at Peter’s Café Sport, in Lisbon.
UPDATE: At the request of some rather important people, the meeting was postponed to the next day, friday the 26th.
It’s summer. It’s hot (well, not so much actually, but it fits better with the theme this way). It’s quiet. It’s definitely time [...]
