Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan!
In What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan, posted on KurzweilAI September 23, 2012, Lt Col Peter Garretson calls for a long-term plan to assure humanity’s survival, “moving everyone and everything we value off Earth.” He cites the coming big extinction events for planet Earth, including asteroid collisions, the Sun engulfing the Earth during its transformation [...]
Categories: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience, Singularity/Futures, Space Tags: blog
The real reasons we don’t have AGI yet
As we noted in a recent post, physicist David Deutsch said the field of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI has made “no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence.” We asked Dr. Ben Goertzel, who introduced the term AGI and founded the AGI conference series, to respond. — Ed. Like so many others, I’ve been [...]
Categories: AI/Robotics Tags: blog
Decentralizing education: how startups are dismantling the university
Dale J. Stephens leads UnCollege, the social movement changing the notion that college is the only path to success. His first book, Hacking Your Education, will be published by Penguin in 2013. Also see the three related posts today (below). Student/teacher interaction “What about student/teacher interaction? What about building a social and professional network? How can you get a job [...]
Categories: Innovation/entrepreneurship, Social Networking/Web/Education Tags: blog
Navigating the seas of Titan in a boat
NASA landed a rover on Mars. So what’s the next step? Right: land a boat on Titan! Hey, come on, it’s gotta be the ultimate travel destiny: A magical moon that’s actually more like a planet. One of the most Earth-like bodies in the Solar System. Has an atmosphere (OK, mostly nitrogen — so bring [...]
Why artificial general intelligence has failed and how to fix it
The field of “artificial general intelligence” or AGI has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence, says Oxford University physicist David Deutsch in this abridged version of an essay in aeon magazine. It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other [...]
Categories: AI/Robotics Tags: blog
The rise of the machines: and now the really bad news
Vice just posted an update to their “we’re living in a simulation“ interview with Dr. Rich Terrile of NASA JPL. “I think our machines will wake up and take over our society,” he said. “They will become us, we will become them. We’ll merge with machines. Take over? Now wait a minute there, rocket man…. “We have [...]
Categories: AI/Robotics, Singularity/Futures Tags: blog
The rise of the machines: and now the really bad news
Vice just posted an update to their “we’re living in a simulation“ interview with Dr. Rich Terrile of NASA JPL. “I think our machines will wake up and take over our society,” he said. “They will become us, we will become them. We’ll merge with machines. Take over? Now wait a minute there, rocket man…. “We have [...]
Categories: AI/Robotics, Singularity/Futures Tags: blog
What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan
Lt Col Garretson — one of the USAF’s most farsighted and original thinkers — has been at the forefront of USAF strategy on the long-term future in projects such as Blue Horizons (on KurzweilAI — see video), Energy Horizons, Space Solar Power, the AF Futures Game, the USAF Strategic Environmental Assessment, and the USAF RPA [...]
Categories: Energy, Environment/Climate, Human Enhancement, Physics/Cosmology, Singularity/Futures, Space, Survival/Defense Tags: blog
Singularitarians and musicians stage Madrid gathering
A spectre is haunting the world — the Singularity. All the powers of the old world have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre — the Pope and the ayatollahs, the banks and the political parties, and “bioethicists” of both the right and the left. … So says KurzweilAI transhumanist editor Giulio Prisco, [...]
Categories: Singularity/Futures Tags: blog
How to access TV news on any topic for the last three years
This is fantastic news for journalists and voters: the Internet Archive has launched the free TV News Search & Borrow service. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are [...]
Categories: Entertainment/New Media, Internet/Telecom Tags: blog
