One aspect that is often associated with the coming of the Singularity is that it will enable us to live forever (or at least for as long as we want to). This may or may not be desirable, but setting aside the discussion about whether we will want to live forever or even if we can cope with [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[ May 12, 2011; 18:00 to 23:00. 18:00 to 23:00. ] Once again the lobsters, singularitarians, tech-heads, geeks (and the just plain curious) are summoned to discuss, basically, the meaning of 42.
Come meet us after work on Thursday, May 12th, at Hennessy’s for a few beers, chips and light-hearted discussions about our collective future, the way we’ll get there, and how in the post-scarcity future there will be [...]
[ April 2, 2011; 19:00 to 23:00. ] In keeping with our ongoing attempts at tackling the issues that are a-coming with the singularity (which is about to unleash any day now, you just wait and see), we are going to convene again this coming Saturday.
Hopefully, this time there will be no genetically evolved virtual car distractions and we will nail the whole [...]
[ February 24, 2011; 18:30 to 23:30. ] Once again we’ve been too long without contemplating the inevitable coming of our robotic overlords. Or without having a few beers together.
This cannot be!
So to right this wrong we’ll convene again next week on Thursday, February 24th, from 18h30 onwards, at O’Gilins, near Cais do Sodré.
Come one, come all, this is the return to a [...]
