Ben Goerrtzel | Beyond AGI: Imagining the Unimaginable
Dr. Ben Goertzel, a self-described Cosmist and Singularitarian, is one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial general intelligence (AGI), natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, and virtual worlds and gaming He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles.
SOME KEYS TO PREDICTING THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
The future spend in R&D of billions of dollars on the development and use of key technologies will shape our future, claims Forbes contributor Greg Satell are trends that will drive the future with interfaces that we will not have to touch to interact with.
Project Glass by Google, Kinect by Microsoft and to Siri on Apple devices are just the tip of the ice berge into the future as we will not have to touch or in some cases not even have to speak to these devices as they adapt to control our incoming information flows and computing relationships. Within ten years it is predicted that interfaces will simply appear and drive our computing interactions in a more ubiquitous human way appearing to be instantaneously acting on our wishes, wants and desires as they get to know us.
IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative
When our homes, cars and nearly all devices and appliances we use are connected to the web our time spent managing these will be reduced so we can enjoy our families and work and leisure without interruption. The two way communication of our devices without our involvement will be exploding with ultra low power chips that will even be able to harvest energy.
“IBM to Google to Microsoft are racing to combine natural language processing with huge Big Data systems in the cloud that we can access from anywhere, (Forbes: Greg Satell).”
