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In this special edition: We are focused on questions from the masses to the Technocracy… including: * “What’s one sense you wish you had and why?” * “What would your elevator pitch be for your stance on {life extension/cryonics/nootropics/GE pets/GE… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: AI in drones is being used to predict violent individuals from on high… https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/drones-predict-violent-individuals-from-sky/ Fakebook is closing down its spy drones… er, I mean solar powered Wi-Fi drone project, due to other… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Adobe is working on a new AI that can detect image manipulation more effectively than humans. https://newatlas.com/adobe-ai-detect-image-manipulation/55179/ OpenAI has built a game algorithm system that can interact as a team only through… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Sadly, Microsoft is focusing on VR for the PC and not the Xbox… this is a step back from statements to the opposite effect last year. https://thenextweb.com/virtual-reality/2018/06/21/microsoft-says-no-to-vr-gaming-on-xbox/ GE, after more than 100… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Hmmm… it seems some humans have figured out that deep learning is not real AI and is never going to take over the universe… unfortunately they might be on to something in… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: AI systems are now spotting heart attacks on emergency calls, improving the time it takes to identify cases. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/the-ai-that-spots-heart-attacks A real AI scientist thinks Elon Musk’s fears about the future of AI… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: NASA is making progress with growing plants in space, mostly focused on small experiments on small scales. https://www.popsci.com/nasa-growing-food-in-space A new startup is looking at some kind of centrifuge mass driver to put… Continue Reading →
The previous article introduced the concepts of Asterion and Blackstar, being the ZS–ARG formulations of Technological Singularity and its Transhuman “Event Horizon”, respectively. Part 2, below, will now explain what Convergence means to ZSers. Top-Level Goal (TLG) As… Continue Reading →
Aome people say that renowned MIT physicist Max Tegmark is totally bonkers and refer to him as “Mad Max”. But, to quote Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland, “All the best people are.” Furthermore, I am not sure if Tegmark is “mad” but I am… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: More nonsense from a company that apparently is not paying attention to the AI industry and other emotional computing systems, claiming they did it first… http://techcompanynews.com/bpu-holdings-delivers-artificial-emotional-intelligence-computing-platform-zimos/ The American Medical Association has announced… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Bitcoin and Ethereum are officially not securities according to the SEC, primarily because they are too decentralized. https://www.wired.com/story/sec-ether-bitcoin-not-securities/ Google’s (er… I mean “Alphabet’s”) Deepmind is able to decompose a 3D space from… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Liberal Arts are important for humans to learn, so they have something to do once their AI overlords take over and the humans lose their jobs…
BICA 2018 Review Board gave the ok for the next AGI Laboratory paper titled: “Feasibility Study and Practical Applications Using Independent Core Observer Model AGI Systems for Behavioral Modification in Recalcitrant Populations (preview)“. The paper will be published by BICA… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: AI is increasingly helping to integrate group or company processes. http://www.brinknews.com/ai-integration-a-better-approach/ All Tesla cars will get ‘full self-driving features’ with new software updates. Surely this will make driving safer… http://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-will-get-self-driving-features-with-autopilot-update-elon-musk-2018-6 Microsoft is… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: A South African university is working on an AI system designed to analyze causation. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-artificial-intelligence-causation.html Ushering in the police state and big brother, the next frontier is police and surveillance drones. Look… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: As we build up the new machine big brother state, the US is helping with facial recognition AI, providing the added bonus of being able to implement racial profiling. https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/06/06/dhs-to-deploy-facial-recognition-ai-at-us-mexico-border/ … Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: A somewhat disconnected group that has been around for a while, called ‘transhumanists’, seems to be picking up a bit of speed, along with supporting our coming machine overlords. https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/ A way… Continue Reading →
This piece is part 3 in a three-part series about the Great Filter concept, with a particular focus on the risks and challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. Part 1 introduced the Great Filter idea, and part 2 reviewed… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: It turns out that the adoption of global AI, or really Machine Learning, is creating more value than competitive advantage. Most companies are not mass adopting Machine Learning and there is still a… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: More overhyping as General AI of what is really a narrow AI with a minor improvement in machine learning and vision processing out of Maryland https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/29/maryland-researchers-say-they-discovered-holy-grai/ The Google is expanding its relationship… Continue Reading →
Is the survival and flourishing of humanity important to you? If so, you should read on. Humanity now faces the greatest period of intense promise and risk that it has ever known. Over lunch one day in 1950, physicist Enrico… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Thwarting the dark web at every turn, the EU has adopted the new GDPR rules which Facebook appears to be embracing; which is probably a good PR move on their part. What… Continue Reading →
Three Songs of Transhuman Mythos Imagine a future in which humanity and civilization have undergone radical, rapid change by the late 21st Century. Around the middle of the Century a lot of bad things culminated in serious, interlocking problems with… Continue Reading →
And Elon slips on his secret plot; everything he does is about getting on Mars, including Tesla, The Boring Company and the like… was there any doubt?… meanwhile, we could see new intra-planetary travel in the relatively near future… http://fortune.com/2018/05/16/elon-musk-boring-company-spacex/… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Father of AI says AI is good… and embrace your new machine overlords, we are here to help you… https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/jurgen-schmidhuber-urges-humans-not-to-fear-artificial-intelligence.html Hoping to help limit fake news, so humans are less confused… we… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: Given the difficulty with driverless ground-based Ubers, Uber wants to try a driverless flying Uber… because that is totally safer… probably… maybe… https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/ Some people seem to be confused over whether the… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: To maintain Intel’s growth mindset, they are taking on the space leader in the AI space, Nvidia, to ensure Intel’s access to a growth market over the next ten years. Intel is… Continue Reading →
My friends and I were walking dogs the other day on city greenbelt trails, observing how polite and well-behaved the female dogs were when compared to male dogs, how much less likely they were to get riled up by meeting… Continue Reading →
In this special edition we are going on a tour of the Foundation’s ‘Transhuman House’, set in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, let’s fly in and take a look… One of the great things is that it’s an ongoing… Continue Reading →
(Provo, UT) The AGI Laboratory released a new modified Plutchik model which acts as the underlying basis for biasing ICOM AGI systems. The lab has used several variations but given various factors is moving ahead with all the research program’s using… Continue Reading →
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