And this is why we can only speculate about the future and the singularity, but we’ll never know for sure until we get there. The article is written in the context of writing SciFi, but it applies as-is to real-world predicting (it is hard SciFi, not Science Fantasy).
This article was written by Charles Stross, go [...]
My good friend Benjamim tweeted a link this week that prompted me to get back onto the singularity topic itself. The tweet pointed to an article entitled “The Singularity and Its Discontents” which presents a summary of what I interpret as being objections to the notion of the singularity.
First off we read about Jaron Lanier‘s opinion that many singulitarians’ [...]
By now the furore over this video has probably reached those who are interested in these topics, but just in case you’ve missed it, check out this amazing video of a swarm of nano quadrotors, flying in a controlled and agile way as a formation:
The degree of control each quadrotor has over it’s position and [...]
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 [...]
Oh look, they’re not even officially self-aware yet and already they’re breaking out the cans and spray-painting the walls like it’s nobody’s business!
Check the video on the ieee spectrum blog post. (If you’re impatient, the hard core graffiti actions starts at around the 50s mark.)
For shame!
This time around I stumbled across a proposed system to learn more about our own learning processes, aimed specifically at optimizing them.
I’ve been delving quite a bit into the area of Machine Learning lately and the idea described in this article struck me as something that is quite obvious in hindsight (but then what isn’t?)
I found it [...]
As our co-lobster and good friend António puts it: “…only software is missing”.
Read the original article and the /. discussion.
