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 →
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 →
So you want to build your own Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Well then, you’ve come to the right place! Obviously I’m being rather glib, but let’s take a very quick tour of the essential elements you’d need to create a… Continue Reading →
Mankind has come closer than any other lifeform to answering the “Why” because of our supreme level of intelligence. The enhancement of this intelligence is the only way to enhance our understanding of the universe. Developing AI is, in itself,… Continue Reading →
Up until very recently, we have understood creativity to be the sole preserve of human beings. Over the last twenty years, however, we have seen signs that machines are catching up fast, and the range of creative machine activities is… Continue Reading →
How important is Artificial Intelligence to emerging 21st Century society? Before assessing the likely practical impact, we must first understand that its philosophical and moral impact already goes to the very heart of who we are, and what we believe… Continue Reading →
Some years ago I gave a talk called “Consciousness and the Transhuman”, in which I discussed important connections between questions of neuroscience, advancing cognitive technologies, human augmentation and animal rights. Around the same time, philosopher David Pearce was beginning to… Continue Reading →
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