Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Interview List of Media
“In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful AI. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence exists to confront the implied challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.”
Event Tracking, Tools, and Skills – What will it take?
Intel CTO Justin Rattner said that the chip maker’s research labs are working on human-machine interfaces and looking to foster big changes in robotics and the way computers interact with humans. He specifically pointed to work that Intel is doing on wireless power and on developing tiny robots that can be programmed to take on the shape of anything from a cell phone to a shoe or even a human.
SURROGATES – Bruce Willis –
First Official Movie Trailer
Toyota has unveiled a new robot that can play the violin.
Ray is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a twenty-year track record of accurate predictions. Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which describe him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.”
Ray Kurzweil’s keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford and is put on by the Singularity Institute
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The Singularity is Near and access to the following resources will bring you closer to understanding one of our greatest futurist of our time or access Ray’s Web Site.
THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR:
When Humans Transcend Biology
By Ray Kurzweil, Viking Press
THE THESIS:
“…Singularity, an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity. In this new world, there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. We will be able to assume different bodies and take on a range of personae at will. In practical terms, human aging and illness will be reversed; pollution will be stopped; world hunger and poverty will be solved. Nanotechnology will make it possible to create virtually any physical product using inexpensive information processes and will ultimately turn even death into a soluble problem.That merging is the essence of the Singularity, an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity. In this new world, there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. We will be able to assume different bodies and take on a range of personae at will. In practical terms, human aging and illness will be reversed; pollution will be stopped; world hunger and poverty will be solved. Nanotechnology will make it possible to create virtually any physical product using inexpensive information processes and will ultimately turn even death into a soluble problem.” By Ray Kurzweil
The Singularity is Near, A True Story about the Future, based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times best selling book, will be a full-length motion picture slated for theatrical release in early 2009. The movie intertwines a fast-paced A-line documentary with a B-line narrative story.
featuring:
Ray Kurzweil
Alan Dershowitz
Tony Robbins
Pauley Perrette
Bill Joy
Mitch Kapor
Vinod Khosla
Bill McKibben
Marvin Minsky
Martine Rothblatt
Alvin Toffler
Sherry Turkle
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Cynthia Breazeal
Richard Clarke
David Dalrymple
Aubrey De Grey
K. Eric Drexler
Robert A. Freitas Jr.
James Gashel
Neil Gershenfeld
J. Storrs Hall