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Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never land

Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never landRE: Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never landMost amusing. Love your style. But do really think it's impossible? It seems mostly a matter of RAM & links after all doesn't it? Or do you think there is a 'soul'?edward.cooper@bsa.aeNice Informative...

Tags: Singularity Summit 2007, Singularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity

"If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...

Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. Doom

Singularity Summit 2007: Dancing with Dr. DoomThem vs UsThe thing that Dr. Doom and others concerned about the eventual takeover and/or deadly plundering or blundering by our cybernetic overlords fail to bear in mind is that these are extensions of our own intelligence, essentially our progeny - they are us,...

Tags: progeny, Singularity Summit 2007

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: How the artificial intelligensia thinks ahead

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Face, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna come

Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna comeEarth to David......you are clear for landing back on Mother Earth. ;)Check that...'Dan' you are clear to land.That should be enuf on the Singularity Summit 2007 front. ;)landingwhat else to do on a weekend but contemplate the AI :)

Tags: Singularity Summit 2007, Singularity

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future

Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...

Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species

Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence AI. As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Jurvetson, Nanotechnology, Singularity Summit 2007, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

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Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century"Norvig doesn't expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn't seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Singularity Summit 2007: Computers--they kill me

It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Computer, Dan Farber, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Singularity

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout

It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...

Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-10

News to know: Barcelona; Building a quad-core PC; Google Apps; AI; Flash drives

Notable headlines: AMD's Barcelona not a savior, yet. George Ou: Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs? Leaked - AMD Barcelona versus Intel Clovertown and Tigerton. David Berlind: HP releases statement regarding commitment to AMD’s quad-core Barcelona. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, PC, Quad-core, Barcelona, Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Facebook could surpass 200 million users in a year

During the Office 2.0 Conference last week, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu said that Facebook could become the identity platform for the Web. "Facebook scratches an itch. We are learning from watching it, how things evolve organically. You cannot force feed it. Facebook is making pragmatic choices." On...

Tags: Facebook, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-09

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Google Director of Research Peter Norvig opened the second day of the Singularity Summit 2007 with his take on the state artificial general intelligence AGI. Norvig was asked during a Q&A after his talk if Google has seen any "emergent" property or behavior (the way complex systems...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-09

Singularity Summit 2007: Machines of loving grace

Futurist/historian of science Paul Saffo gave the final presentation of the day at the Singularity Summit 2007, offering his advice to the crowd of 800 attendees. "We are in a moment of handoff. It happens in all technology transitions. The inventors, scientists and innovators hand off to popular culture."...

Tags: News, Computer, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI

I interviewed Steve Omohundro prior to the Singularity Summit 2007 about his notions of developing artificial general intelligences AGIs, but he went into far more detail about his views. He applies what he called "microeconomic rationality," from the work of John Von Neumann and others, to building intelligent, well meaning...

Tags: Memory, Resource, Bhutan, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: Memories

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Memory, Humanity, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: The view from never, never land

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Church, Dan Farber, Jamais Cascio, Singularity

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: A change is gonna come

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Robot, Poland, Banker, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Singularity Summit 2007: It's about the money

AIs will compete with human for jobs, and more often get the job, according to Barney Pell, CEO of natural language search startup Powerset who was speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007. Unlike previous generations of AIs, which has more specialized functions covering a constrained domain, these...

Tags: Consensus, Advanced General Intelligence, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08