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).
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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.
Oh yes, we may be kind of silent, but we’re definitely spreading.
Check us out at http://gplus.to/oneoverzero, circle us and throw all of your singulitarian curve balls our way at G+.
Meet you there!
Generalizing, learning by itself, learning to learn. These (together will self-awareness, possibly) are the most basic capabilities needed for an AI that can lead us into the singularity. And yet, the current state of the art is frankly quite incipient.
Now don’t get me wrong, I know we’re more advanced now than we’ve ever been before [...]
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.
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 [...]
