Tagged: Artificial intelligence

Will we live forever like Ray Kurzweil believes?

 

Transcendent Man (2009) – IMDb. This video shows the things that Mr. Kurzweil believes and he has an impressive track record. It bothers me that he said “I do plan to bring back my father.” Perhaps material existence isn’t the best form of existence we can have. An interesting and fairly balanced view of a possible future.

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Questions for Ray Kurzweil (via Tired Road Warrior)

Ray Kurzweil at ACE
Image by TimWilson via Flickr

Famous author. Many people involved in technology also are futurist or transhumanist believers as well.

Futurist (and transhumanist) Ray Kurzweil in Time maganzine (6 Dec 2010) provided answers to the following questions” Is it a mistake to use the events of the recent past as a method of predicting the future? Our intuition about the future is linear.  But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference.  If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30.  If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. What … Read More

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Eniac (via photos, art, literature, history)

It is amazing to think that the human race created something like this in the past. How complex and perfect everything must have had to be.

Technician manipulating 1 of hundreds of dials on panel of IBM‘s room-size ENIAC computer Location: Aberdeen Proving Gro, MD, US Date taken: 1947 Photographer: Francis Miller … Read More

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Robots that Make us More Human (via EvologyNow)

You don’t often hear things like this. Interesting find.

I think we’re all starting to feel a bit blase about technology that can  perform a human’s job, but the idea of technology that helps humans become better humans? Now that’s an interesting example of evology. Maja Mataric,  mother and computer scientist, has created a humanoid known as the Camera Bandit, which is intended to provide a “comfy” way for autistic children to gain social skills. The ‘bot is predictable, responds with easy-to-read fac … Read More

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