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Oct 5, 2023
Ray Kurzweil Wants To Put Nanobots In Our Bloodstream
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: employment, life extension, nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
Would you want to live forever? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil discuss immortality, longevity escape velocity, the singularity, and the future of technology. What will life be like in 10 years?
Could we upload our brain to the cloud? We explore the merger of humans with machines and how we are already doing it. Could nanobots someday flow through our bloodstreams? Learn about the exponential growth of computation and what future computing power will look like.
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Oct 3, 2023
What Constitutes Your Stream of Consciousness?
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: information science, mobile phones, neuroscience, singularity
It wouldn’t shock me if all the buzz around searching for the ‘locus of consciousness’ merely fine-tunes our grasp of how the brain is linked to consciousness — without actually revealing where consciousness comes from, because it’s not generated in the brain. Similarly, your smartphone doesn’t create the Internet or a cellular network; it just processes them. Networks of minds are a common occurrence throughout the natural world. What sets humans apart is the impending advent of cybernetic connectivity explosion that could soon evolve into a form of synthetic telepathy, eventually leading to the rise of a unified, global consciousness — what could be termed the Syntellect Emergence.
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In summary, the study of consciousness could be conceptualized through a variety of lenses: as a series of digital perceptual snapshots, as a cybernetic system with its feedback processes, as a grand theater; or perhaps even as a VIP section in a cosmological establishment of magnificent complexity. Today’s leading theories of consciousness are largely complementary, not mutually exclusive. These multiple perspectives not only contribute to philosophical discourse but also herald the dawn of new exploratory avenues, equally enthralling and challenging, in our understanding of consciousness.
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Sep 29, 2023
The Future of Digital Immortality [Documentary]
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biological, education, life extension, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
This video covers digital immortality, its required technologies, processes of uploading a mind, its potential impact on society, and more. Watch this next video about the world in 2200: https://bit.ly/3htaWEr.
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00:00 Required Technologies.
01:42 The Processes of Uploading a Mind.
03:32 Positive Impacts On Society.
05:34 When Will It Become Possible?
05:53 Is Digital Immortality Potentially Dangerous?
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Sep 14, 2023
Was Our Universe Formed Inside the Quantum Chaos of Another Universe’s Black Hole?
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, quantum physics, singularity
A cosmologist explains the mind-bending hypothesis that our universe could have branched off from a black hole singularity in another universe.
Sep 3, 2023
Beyond Boundaries: The Future of AI & Large Language Models
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: robotics/AI, singularity
Join Dr. Ben Goertzel, the visionary CEO and Founder of SingularityNET, as he delves into the compelling realm of large language models. In this Dublin Tech Summit keynote presentation, Dr. Goertzel will navigate the uncharted territories of AI, discussing the imminent impact of large language models on innovation across industries. Discover the intricacies, challenges, and prospects of developing and deploying these transformative tools. Gain insights into the future of AI, as Dr. Goertzel unveils his visionary perspective on the role of large language models in shaping the AI landscape. Tune in to explore the boundless potentials of AI and machine learning in this thought-provoking session.
Themes: AI & Machine Learning | Innovation | Future of Technology | Language Models | Industry Transformation.
Keynote: Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO and Founder, SingularityNET
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Aug 31, 2023
Superintelligence Rising — Are We Prepared for Artificially Created Minds?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: robotics/AI, singularity
In 1993, acclaimed sci-fi author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge made a bold prediction – within 30 years, advances in technology would enable the creation of artificial intelligence surpassing human intelligence, leading to “the end of the human era.”
Vinge theorized that once AI becomes capable of recursively improving itself, it would trigger a feedback loop of rapid, exponential improvements to AI systems. This hypothetical point in time when AI exceeds human intelligence has become known as “the Singularity.”
While predictions of superhuman AI may have sounded far-fetched in 1993, today they are taken seriously by many AI experts and tech investors seeking to develop “artificial general intelligence” or AGI – AI capable of fully matching human performance on any intellectual task.
Aug 28, 2023
What is the next wave after artificial intelligence｜The Singularity Is Near｜#audiobooks
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: information science, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity, space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmaHadPf_Y
This book, ‘The Singularity Is Near’, predicts the future. However, unlike most best-selling futurology books, its author, Kurzweil, is a renowned technology expert. His insights into the future are not technocratic wild fantasies but are rooted in his profound contemplation of technological principles.
This audio informs us that, due to Moore’s Law, the pace of human technological advancement in the future will far exceed our expectations. By 2045, we will reach the technological ‘Singularity’, which will profoundly alter our human condition, and technology may even enable humans to conquer the universe within a millennium.
Aug 25, 2023
Toward AGI — What is Missing?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: economics, physics, robotics/AI, singularity
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a term for Artificial Intelligence systems that meet or exceed human performance on the broad range of tasks that humans are capable of performing. There are benefits and downsides to AGI. On the upside, AGIs can do most of the labor that consume a vast amount of humanity’s time and energy. AGI can herald a utopia where no one has wants that cannot be fulfilled. AGI can also result in an unbalanced situation where one (or a few) companies dominate the economy, exacerbating the existing dichotomy between the top 1% and the rest of humankind. Beyond that, the argument goes, a super-intelligent AGI could find it beneficial to enslave humans for its own purposes, or exterminate humans so as to not compete for resources. One hypothetical scenario is that an AGI that is smarter than humans can simply design a better AGI, which can, in turn, design an even better AGI, leading to something called hard take-off and the singularity.
I do not know of any theory that claims that AGI or the singularity is impossible. However, I am generally skeptical of arguments that Large Language Models such the GPT series (GPT-2, GPT-3, GPT-4, GPT-X) are on the pathway to AGI. This article will attempt to explain why I believe that to be the case, and what I think is missing should humanity (or members of the human race) so choose to try to achieve AGI. I will also try to convey a sense for why it is easy to talk about the so-called “recipe for AGI” in the abstract but why physics itself will prevent any sudden and unexpected leap from where we are now to AGI or super-AGI.
To achieve AGI it seems likely we will need one or more of the following:
