70 days ago by Mike Dojc

That may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Kurzweil, a member of the Inventor's Hall of Fame and a recipient of the National Medal of Technology, says that research well underway today is leading to a time when a combination of nanotechnology and biotechnology will …

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80 days ago by Tom James

Gerontologist Aubrey de Grey gives his thoughts on the technological singularity (subtypes: intelligence explosion and accelerating change) in this interview in h+ Magazine: I can’t see how the “event horizon” definition of the Singularity can occur other than by the creation of fully autonomous rec ...

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100 days ago by Tom James

MIT neuroengineer Edward Boyden has been speculating as to whether the singularity requires the machine-equivalent of what humans call “motivation”: I think that focusing solely on intelligence augmentation as the driver of the future is leaving out a critical part of the analysis–namely, the change ...

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107 days ago by Tom James

Alref Nordmann writes in IEEE Spectrum of how technological progress is, contrary to the promises of singularitarians like Ray Kurzweil, actually slowing down: Technological optimists maintain that the impact of innovation on our lives is increasing, but the evidence goes the other way. The author’s ...

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