Category: Artificial Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil – Futurist
2.27K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech reco...
Geschiedenis Silicon Valley 3 – Alexander Klöpping, DWDD University
2.49K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Internetjournalist Alexander Klöpping reisde naar Silicon Valley en doceert over z'n bevindingen in het mekka van de IT industrie. Aandacht voor de toekomst van de digitale wereld en ons moderne leven.
Book: WWW Trilogy – Robert J. Sawyer
2.50K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Review of WWW Trilogy, by Kron Kyrios This review is from: WWW: Wake (Hardcover) Personally, I see this as one long story, and would not recommend simply reading any one or two volumes of this trilogy. Therefore, ...
Turing Test dismissed – George Dvorsky
2.52K Views0 Comments0 Likes
As many reported yesterday, a chatbot has passed the Turing Test, though under some very convenient conditions. The announcement has led some to declare that the age of AI is finally here, but that's nonsense. Here's ...
Our Final Invention – James Barrat
2.53K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Singularity 1 on 1: James Barrat on Our Final Invention For 20 years James Barrat has created documentary films for National Geographic, the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel and public television. In 2000, d...
Science is the Engine of Prosperity
2.56K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein's quest to un...
Turing Test passed? (about Eugene Goostman)
2.56K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Ben Goertzel's in depth assessment of the reality behind the Eugene Goostman Turing Test results. @ 18:00 min: "I don't think there is any way anyone will consider this a real milestone in the path toward making huma...
Transcendence Official Trailer & Reviews
2.57K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Storyline Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever...
David Pearce – H. G. Wells Utopia
2.67K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Well's The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. "That which does not...
Radical life extension and biological immortality – The Immortalist – Jason Silva
2.73K Views0 Comments0 Likes
A MEDITATION ON THE WILL TO BECOME IMMORTAL... a love letter to science and philosophy that explores the idea of engineered radical life extension and biological immortality featuring Ray Kurzweil among others... by J...
Crime-Fighting Robotic Guard… for $6.25 an Hour
2.75K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus has a new security team-- 300-pound robots equipped with high-def, omnidirectional video capture, thermal imaging, infrared, radar, and more are patrolling around. They're cal...
IBM’s Watson – The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
2.88K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Watson is an artificially intelligent computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson...