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| Singularity Summit 2008 Reviewed
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| posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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Singularity Hub is proud to deliver the web’s most comprehensive coverage and analysis of the Singularity Summit 2008.
The Singularity Summit is the premier annual event for those that are
interested in the singularity. Below you will find our high level
summary, followed by a link to a much more detailed description with
pictures...
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| The Rise Of The Machines
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| posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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"But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily
turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully
seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily
permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the
machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of
the machines’ decisions. ... Eventually a stage may be reached at which
the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex
that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At
that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be
able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent
on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."
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| Superstruct
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| posted on Friday, October 10, 2008
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Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting
game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019
-- and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this
is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the
future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our
collective human potential.
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| Peter Russell On 'The Singularity'
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| posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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As we saw in the first chapter, accelerating change is a pattern that
runs throughout the history of evolution. The Big Bang, or whatever it
was, happened ten billion years ago (give or take a couple of billion
years). The evolution of simple lifeforms began four billion years ago.
Multicellular life appeared a billion or so years ago. The evolution of
complex nervous systems, made possible by the emergence of vertebrates,
began several hundred million years ago. Mammals appeared tens of
millions of years ago. The genus Homo first stood on the planet a
couple of million years ago. Homo sapiens, appeared several hundred
thousand years ago. The shift to Homo sapiens sapiens that was
triggered by the emergence of language and tool use, and which resulted
in the Agricultural Revolution, began tens of thousands of years ago.
Civilization -- the movement into towns and cities -- started several
thousand years ago. The Industrial Revolution began a few centuries
ago. And the Information Revolution is but a few decades old.
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| The Singularity: Rupture Or Rapture?
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| posted on Monday, September 15, 2008
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According to Moore's Law, computational power is doubling every 18
months. Which means that the year 2000 marked 32 consecutive doublings
since the invention of the transistor, while 2006 marked 32 doublings
since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958. We are now
living on the second half of the chessboard -- and from here on out,
things get really crazy. Turing-approved artificial intelligence,
cyborg brain/computer interfaces, nanotechnology, even the possibility
of uploading consciousness to digital substrate -- all of this
"post-human" technology is now becoming increasingly feasible, and
there is a very good chance we could see this (and more) achieved
within most of our lifetimes...
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| AI Beats Human Poker Champions
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| posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008
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Humanity was dealt a decisive blow by a poker-playing artificial
intelligence program called Polaris during the Man-Machine Poker
Competition in Las Vegas.
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| Building Bionic Humans
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| posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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More and more of the body is becoming, if not obsolete, then certainly
replaceable. But which of our body parts can be engineered today, and
which will we have to make do with?
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