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Oct 14, 2020
Francesca Minerva, author of The Ethics of Cryonics, joins our Ethics Board and our Life Extension Board.
Oct 14, 2020
Louis Rosenberg, Chief Scientist of the artificial Intelligence company Unanimous AI, joins our Robotics/AI Board.
Oct 10, 2020
Raphael Ramos joins our blog team with the post NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls.
Oct 9, 2020
Read Special Report
The Great Matrix of Big History
by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member
William Grassie.
Our European ancestors once understood the universe to be a Great
Chain of Being. All the entities of the world — animal,
vegetable, mineral — were hierarchically organized. At the bottom
were metals, precious metals, and precious stones. Then came plants and
trees, followed by wild animals and domesticated animals. Humans were
also hierarchically ordered from children to women to men and further
into the different ranks of commoners, nobility, princes, and kings.
The Great Chain of Being continued up into the celestial realm —
moon, stars, angels, and archangels — to the very top where God
presides over the entire creation. This scala naturae provided
humans with a natural order, which they also understood to be a natural
human order that structured their societies.
Oct 6, 2020
Read issue #218 of Lifeboat News!
Oct 4, 2020
Kelly Idehen joins our blog team with the post The Road to Human 2.0.
Sep 30, 2020
Greg Allison joins our blog team with the post Life On Venus — How Could It Have Gotten There?
Sep 29, 2020
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Rise of the Machines: How, When and Consequences of Artificial General Intelligence
by Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board member
Richard J. Terrile.
Technology and society are poised to cross an important threshold
with the prediction that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will
emerge soon. Assuming that self-awareness is an emergent behavior of
sufficiently complex cognitive architectures, we may witness the
“awakening” of machines. The timeframe for this kind of
breakthrough, however, depends on the path to creating the network and
computational architecture required for strong AI.
If understanding and
replication of the mammalian brain architecture is required, technology
is probably still at least a decade or two removed from the resolution
required to learn brain functionality at the synapse level. However, if
statistical or evolutionary approaches are the design path taken to
“discover” a neural architecture for AGI, timescales for
reaching this threshold could be surprisingly short.
Sep 27, 2020
Double Academy Award winner Mark Sagar joins our Media & Arts Board. Mark was involved with the creation of technology for the digital characters in blockbusters such as Avatar, King Kong, and Spider-Man 2.
Sep 27, 2020
José Rafael Castro Fuentes, author of Galactosylated N-Glycans in the Choroid Plexus: A Possible Aging-Related Molecular Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer Disease, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Sep 26, 2020
Eamon Everall joins our blog team with the post NASA gearing up for epic asteroid-sampling maneuver next month.
Sep 25, 2020
Enter The SRF Design-a-Mask Competition!
We’re inviting all our supporters to submit designs for an
official SRF mask. As well as being worn by SRF staff, these masks will
be available in limited supply to anyone who’d like to
support ending age-related disease and disability.
Sep 20, 2020
Read issue #217 of Lifeboat News!
