Luke Muehlhauser, executive director at the Singularity Institute, is writing a blog called “Facing the Singularity” in which he trying to explain his particular vision of the coming singularity and our role in it.
It makes for a rather involved reading, as Mr. Muehlhauser goes to some pains to explain his ideas in great detail. It also has [...]
Here is a video that fellow oneoverzero-er(?…) Sérgio Bernardino unearthed, about how video games might very well be an important piece of the puzzle on the way to creating artificial intelligences that bring about the Singularity.
It is rather light-hearted and kind of fun, but it does give a brief overview of what the Singularity is about [...]
I know we already had a post this week, and a rather substantial one at that, but this is just cool. And it has robots! So forgive me for over indulging in my link sharing, but here is an article with an excellent video on reptilian-like tailed robots (video at the end of the post).
It is [...]
Today we’re coming back to the topic of ethics and morality.
It is not a commonly accepted fact that there is a real need for serious thought and debate over the subject of “synthetic” moral agents. Many people and institutions still regard this issue as something of an esoteric topic that the techies have dreamed up in [...]
