#Singularity

all about the coming technological singularity.

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Lifelike robots take center stage at artificial intelligence event
USA TODAY
Jul 12, 2017
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i watched this robotics demo until the end. it's still a bit rough but the most impressive part is the AI Mind Cloud. it makes you wonder whether we humans also operate that way. for example whenever …
Robotics
I watched two robots chat together on stage at a tech event
TechCrunch - Jon Russell
Jul 12, 2017
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Elon Musk's Neuralink could protect humanity from artificial intelligence - Business Insider
Business Insider - Kevin Loria
He's developing electric vehicles, self-driving cars, tunnel-boring infrastructure technology, and re-usable rockets (with the goal of getting humans to Mars). Given Musk's ambitiousness, it's not totally
Jun 17, 2017
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whoa! bring it! 😎 #singularity Craig Venter's ‘Digital-to-Biological Converter’ Is Real https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/craig-venters-digital-to-biological-converter-is-real
Craig Venter's ‘Digital-to-Biological Converter’ Is Real
VICE - Jordan Pearson
Jun 15, 2017
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Brain-computer interfaces are coming: ‘Consensual telepathy,’ anyone?
The Washington Post - By Edd Gent
There’s been a lot of hype coming out of Silicon Valley about technology that can meld the human brain with machines. But how will this help society, and which companies are leading the charge? Elon Musk,
Jun 11, 2017
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but good luck stopping #neuralink. #singularity Noam Chomsky Says Mind-Reading Tech Is Impossible and Dangerous https://www.inverse.com/article/32375-noam-chomsky-facebook-neuralink-elon-musk
Noam Chomsky Has a Damning Assessment of "Brain-Machine Interfaces"
Inverse - Dyani Sabin
Jun 3, 2017
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Watch: Ray Kurzweil Predicts When We’ll Be Able to Program Matter
singularityhub.com - Singularity Hub Staff
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, …
Jun 2, 2017
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(Un)Becoming Human: Tech-Augmented Human Workers Have Arrived
futurism.com - The Conversation
Robot-augmented humans are officially walking the Earth. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived. The first was the steam engine-driven …
May 22, 2017
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Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in | World news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the …
Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in
The Guardian - Andy Beckett
May 11, 2017
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The Entrepreneur with the $100 Million Plan to Link Brains to Computers
MIT Technology Review - Antonio Regalado
Tech big shots are charging into neuroscience, but do they even have a clue? Entrepreneur Bryan Johnson says he wanted to become very rich in order to …
Mar 16, 2017
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4 Crazy Predictions About the Future of Art
Inc Magazine - Kevin J. Ryan
The futurist has some wild ideas about where artificial intelligence is going. Futurist (and current director of engineering at Google) Ray Kurzweil has made a lot of predictions about the future--and
Mar 15, 2017
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Singularity: Explain It to Me Like I’m 5-Years-Old
futurism.com - Roey Tzezana
Here's how to understand the merger of humans and robots. Here’s an experiment that fits all ages: approach your mother and father (if they’re asleep, …
Mar 3, 2017
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Artificial human life could soon be grown in lab after embryo breakthrough
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
Artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the lab, after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells. Cambridge University mixed two kinds of mouse stem cells
Mar 2, 2017
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A Leading Roboticist Just Gave a Bold Prediction for the Singularity
Inverse - Dyani Sabin
In 30 years, the singularity will happen and artificial intelligence in all the smart devices and robots will exceed human intelligence. That was the …
Feb 27, 2017
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Japanese Billionaire is creating a $100 billion investment fund to be a leading developer of AI for Kurzweil's Technological
nextbigfuture.com - Brian Wang
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that within this period he …
Feb 28, 2017
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Merging our brains with machines won't stop the rise of the robots
theconversation.com - Michael Milford Michael Milford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Tesla chief executive and OpenAI founder Elon Musk suggested last week that humanity might stave off irrelevance from the rise of the machines by …
Feb 26, 2017
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Sorry, Y’All—Humanity’s Nearing an Upgrade to Irrelevance
WIRED - WIRED Staff
Humanity has had astonishing success alleviating famine, disease, and war. (It might not always seem that way, but it’s true.) Now, Homo sapiens is on …
Feb 21, 2017
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The Economic Singularity
singularityweblog.com - Calum Chace
My new book The Economic Singularity argues that in the next few decades most humans will become unemployable because machines (AI systems plus their …
Jul 26, 2016
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The future of our cities? It could be blockchain
weforum.org - Hussein Dia
Many trends on the horizon offer opportunities that could transform our cities. From self-driving vehicles and the sharing economy through to cloud …
Dec 15, 2016
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good luck with that. #singularity DARPA: We're Moving to Merge Humans and Machines ~ https://futurism.com/darpa-were-moving-to-merge-humans-and-machines/
DARPA: We’re Moving to Merge Humans and Machines
futurism.com - Dom Galeon
Feb 14, 2017
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk on Robots: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Become One
Inc Magazine - Kevin J. Ryan
The entrepreneur believes that becoming cyborgs is the way of the future. Elon Musk has made his concerns about the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence clear in recent years. Luckily, the has
Feb 13, 2017
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Elon Musk says humans must merge with machines or become ...
yahoo.com - CNBC Videos
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that humans need to combine their minds with computers or risk becoming obsolete.
Feb 13, 2017
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Why Immortality Is Overrated
NPR - John Henning Schumann
Helen was 82. She'd survived both breast cancer and outlived her husband. One summer day she began bleeding from her colon and was admitted to the hospital. We assumed the worst — another cancer. But she
Feb 4, 2017
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Electrek green energy brief: Saudi oil company $5B into green energy, top 10 solar cell manufacturers, and more
Electrek - John Fitzgerald Weaver
World’s largest oil producer is putting $5B into renewables – Saudi Arabia has known for a long time that the oil revenue would not flow indefinitely. There have been many conversations about diversification
Jan 30, 2017
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https://youtu.be/UORzNrCwWtc
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Jan 29, 2017
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By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity
MIT Technology Review - John Pavlus
Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering. Has the world’s brainiest …
Dec 17, 2012
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The Technological Arms Race
livewiremarkets.com
In a recent TED interview, Charlie Rose asked Larry Page (Co-Founder of Google) what is his most important lesson from business. He said that he has …
Jan 4, 2017
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https://youtu.be/9tqCVtTGirI
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Jan 4, 2017