Brain-machine Interfaces as a Challenge to the “Moment of Singularity”
Ray Kurzweil predicts that artificial intelligence will equal and then surpass human intelligence in the not-too-distant future, in what he calls the “moment of singularity.” Advances in brain/machine...
View ArticleAmazing Technologies From the Year….2015
I cannot predict the future, but I can look at the recent past. What happened in 2015 as far as technology is concerned? Many things happened that, had I predicted them in January 2015, people would...
View ArticleComputers Crack Life’s Secrets
Once the three-billion-letter-long human genome was sequenced, we rushed into a new “omics” era of biological research. Scientists are now racing to sequence the genomes (all the genes) or proteomes...
View ArticleRise of the Robots: Disruptive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence &...
[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9G7ziqvJPM”] Ivar Moesman (@ivarivano) discusses exponential growth of technology, how it disrupts existing industries and some learnings and...
View ArticleAbout a bot: Interview with Katie Rose Pipkin
@mothgenerator by Katie Rose Pipkin and Loren Schmidt Taina Bucher interviews artist and bot maker Katie Rose Pipkin about her most popular Twitter bots, how they work and what they mean. Indeed,...
View ArticleHumans for Transparency in Artificial Intelligence
Recent dramatic progress in artificial intelligence (AI) leads us to believe that Ray Kurzweil’s prediction of human level AI by 2029 may be roughly accurate. Even if reality proves to be a bit...
View ArticleThe Asilomar AI Principles Should Include Transparency About the Purpose and...
author Bill Hibbard The recently published set of 23 Asilomar AI Principles are intended to guide the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Two principles, 7 and 8, call for transparency about...
View ArticleThe Corporatization of AI is a Major Threat to Humanity
By Ben Goertzel This “editorial” article represents the personal views of the author, shaped by his 3 decades in the AI research community and 2 decades as an AI entrepreneur. It absolutely does NOT...
View ArticleSophia and SingularityNET: Q&A
By Ben Goertzel These last couple months have been fascinating (and exhausting) for me. I’ve largely taken a break from my AI research work and I’ve spent most of my time organizing a new...
View ArticleDon’t Panic!
By Calum Chase First Published on Pandora’s Brain Franklin D Roosevelt was inaugurated as US President in March 1933, in the depth of the Great Depression. His famous comment that “The only thing we...
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