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The greatest mysteries yield the biggest opportunities. And for Christopher deCharms, the human brain is the most mysterious thing of all.
A neuroscientist specializing in real-time brain imagery, deCharms suggests that the next wave of knowledge, technology and business will come from cracking the code that gives humans the capacity to perceive, think and act.
He flashes [...]
- Peter Thiel on the Singularity and economic growth (seekerblog.com)
- David Chalmers And The Singularity That Will Probably Not Come (scientificblogging.com)
'If you rearrange the atoms in coal, you get diamond. If you rearrange the atoms in sand, you get silicon. How atoms are arranged is fundamental to all material aspects of life,' says Ralph Merkle, senior research chair at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Those words kick off day 2 at the Singularity University Executive Program.
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Ronald Bailey is a Reason magazine writer who is often called upon to bring reality to the madding crowds. Here is his postscript on the 2009 Singularity Summit: Convened by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) for the first time on the East Coast, this fourth annual meeting attracted about 900 participants. The SIAI was created to address the urgent problem of how to create super-smart AIs that are friendly to human...
From blogger.com
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- Singularity Summit 09 (techliberation.com)
- Divinity Prepares To Release Second Album, "The Singularity" (feedburner.com)
- New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on the Singularity (reason.com)
Singularity University (SU) will launch the SU Executive Program at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. on Saturday.
The nine-day program is designed to educate, inform and prepare executives for the imminent disruption and opportunities resulting from exponentially accelerating technologies.
The SU Executive Program addresses six fields experiencing exponentially accelerating change: AI and Robotics, Nanotechnology...
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From kurzweilai.net
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Ronald Bailey writes about the Singularity: Will Our Robot Overlords Be Friendly? - Reason Magazine
Co-founder of Paypal, venture capitalist, and supporter of the Singularity Institute, Peter Thiel began his talk on the economics of the singularity by asking the audience to vote on which of seven scenarios they are most worried about. (See Reason's interview with Thiel here.) The totals below are my estimates from watching the audience as...
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From ritestuff.blogspot.com
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The Singularity Summit comes to the East
Coast this weekend in the Big Apple. The event will feature
presentations and conversations with Singulatarian luminaries
such as Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Wolfram, Aubrey de Grey, Gregory
Benford, Stuart Hameroff, Peter Thiel, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and
many, many others. What is the Singularity? By one defintion,
the Singularity is usually meant as "a future time when societal,
scientific...
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From reason.com
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Popular ScienceThe Main Man courtesy of the Singularity InstitutePopular ScienceKurzweil's demeanor did nothing to betray his position in that auditorium. This was his yearly Sinatra at Caesar's, state of the Singularity moment, ...and more »
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