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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 →
Welcome to ‘The Technocracy‘s engineering and research teams entry video into the EOS blockchain hackathon. Please vote for us in the link below…
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 →
Sing The Body Electric “Mind Uploading” is the idea that the pattern of information which constitutes your perceptual awareness, memories, personality, and all other cognitive functions can be abstracted from the brain it developed in, and “run” on a different… Continue Reading →
In this edition, the top news starts with: A great idea out of China, where they are building a smart solar highway that can recharge electric cars on the move. Replacing all the roads with such a system would really… Continue Reading →
Beyond Smart Cities The concept of “Smart Cities” has been around for the better part of a decade, referring to a city which uses sensors and other data collection methods to better manage its assets and resources. From a Transhumanist… Continue Reading →
Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster, “Ready Player One” (RP1) is a return to form which trades on around a million (very knowing) 1980s pop-culture references, while also managing to connect those references to a larger narrative about future society and how… 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 →
Welcome to a Rabbit Hole for TNET‘s March-April 2018 Game Event. The following piece is FRActal MEtafiction (FRAME); a Futurist Arts & Culture paradigm which draws upon the concepts of Culture Mining and Gamification, and is inspired by artists such… Continue Reading →
The latest from TheTechnocracy; In this edition, the top news starts with: The simple observation of the monkeys normally referred to as humans observing that the use of machine intelligence smarter than themselves could actually help them be more successful… Continue Reading →
…in the absence of minds to appreciate its benefits. Futurism is therefore not only about technology, but also about people. More to the point, it is about the effects of technology on ourselves and our communities. The Process Technology is… 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 →
(WWW) The Technocracy is a new ‘news’ podcast that launches today described as Answer the most important question: “What are the most important trends and the latest news?” all the news that matters, according to the machine… A news video… 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 →
Artificial intelligence, or simply AI, is starting to rapidly take over the world of technology. Whether it is an assistant like Siri or Alexa, or a self-driving car produced by Tesla, AI is changing our everyday lives. Although today’s AI… 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 →
This article is part of a series on Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG), particularly as it relates to cutting-edge computing technologies. Previous articles (here and here) set out the starting point for this series, which is the idea that while the… Continue Reading →
The research theory is in a white paper is titled: “The Independent Core Observer Model Computational Theory of Consciousness and the Mathematical model for Subjective Experience” Abstract: This paper outlines the Independent Core Observer Model (ICOM) Theory of Consciousness defined… Continue Reading →
Here at AGI Laboratory we explore the intersection of technology and society, where AI, VR, and Big Data (among other things) come crashing into our cultures, social traditions, economies and political institutions. Looking at the world today, it is increasingly… Continue Reading →
We have reached a point in the early 21st Century at which media cannot be assumed to directly represent reality. This is both true in the general and older sense that we may distrust any narrative, but more importantly it is also now… Continue Reading →
(WSRDC, Azure) By decree of the Architect, The Foundation’s Contest has been superseded; in its place, a new more logical contest designed around allowing a wider audience and higher participation with less friction to participation and the crypto from the Foundation… Continue Reading →
(Provo, UT) An employee of Metric.Media (a Machine Learning Digital Advertising Firm) leaked to us that they have been building a video production studio to produce a new ‘news’ show called: “The Technocracy”. Apparently in conjunction with the Artificial General Intelligence… Continue Reading →
Grid Scale Energy Storage So far in Autognosis: Cities we’ve discussed how growth curves of cities could be brought into alignment with other life forms, how a city could be fitted with a smart grid which behaves functionally like a nervous system,… Continue Reading →
Sustainable Design In the last installment of ‘Autognosis: Cities’ we discussed a theory of matching the growth curve of a city with that of an organism. In this installment, I would like to cover the idea of giving that city a nervous… Continue Reading →
’Cities are the Crucible of civilization’. So said Geoffrey West, a professor studying the General Scaling Phenomenon of the natural habitat of the modern human – cities. Geoffrey has spent his career developing the underlying mathematical principals and generalizations for cities so… Continue Reading →
Note: Do NOT try this at home. This is not a “how-to”. Building these could (hopefully) get you arrested . . . . . . but it’s only a matter of time before they WILL be abused. Our saving grace… Continue Reading →
No Such Thing As A Free Meal There are always strings attached, they say. Perhaps this is nowhere more true than in the human mind, which believes itself to be in charge of its own conscious decisions when evidence frequently… Continue Reading →
What Is Human Cognitive Bias? When humans make intuitive judgments, they often make errors that don’t seem to make a lot of sense. The errors matter because they’re systematic, occurring again and again under similar circumstances. For example, people tend… Continue Reading →
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