Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-16 08:46
This is a panel review and audience discussion on the groundbreaking but controversial ideas and projects of Ray Kurzweil, especially as featured in the film Transcendent Man which has its London premier earlier in the same week:http://transcendent-man-london-premiere-5-april-2011.eventbrite.com/
Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-09 20:26
An introduction to the Singularity Institute, which includes luminaries such as biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, who seek to defeat aging, and Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and seed investor in Facebook.
Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-04-09 20:21
Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity University, to study oncoming tech and guide it to benefit humanity.
Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2011-03-19 10:02
Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil has some controversial predictions about the future. Among them: by 2029, he says, computers will be so advanced that their thinking will be indistinguishable from that of humans. This moment, which Kurzweil calls "the Singularity", will change every aspect of our lives, and likely lead to humans and machines fusing together. Recently Kurzweil sat down with VOA to explain his ideas and what leads him to his predictions.
Submitted by Exponential Times on Fri, 2011-03-18 20:24
Eliezer Yudkowsky is one of the worlds foremost researchers on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He created the Friendly AI approach to AGI, which emphasizes the importance of the structure of an ethical optimization process and its supergoal, in contrast to the common trend of seeking the right fixed enumeration of ethical rules a moral agent should follow. At the 2007 Singularity Summit, he introduced three schools of thought currently associated with the word Singularity, their core arguments and bolder conjectures, while noting where they support or contradict each other.
Submitted by Exponential Times on Sat, 2010-10-02 20:26
Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, CSO of the SENS Foundation, on the similarities and differences between the Singularity and the concept of longevity escape velocity.
