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Will Technology Replace Biology?

by Socrates

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As you probably know, Singularity Weblog’s tagline is Will Technology Replace Biology? Thus, when I saw this YouTube video ad on the evolution of technology, I was completely unable to resist posting it. Plus, I thought I’d give you something short, smart and interesting for the weekend. So, what do you think? Will technology replace [...]

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Singularity News on Reuters

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Yesterday I saw a number of interesting news stories from different fields that all relate to the technological singularity. Here are the top 4 singularity news on Reuters. Mind-controlled prosthetic arm An Austrian amputee is the first in Europe to be fitted with a new-generation mind-controlled prosthetic limb that moves and feels like a real [...]

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Singularity Weblog Logo Contest

by Socrates

I am running a contest for a new Singularity Weblog logo. Please help me pick the winner. It is easy — just look at the proposed designs by clicking here. Then come and post a comment after the post or email me your favorite design number and why in your opinion it deserves to win. [...]

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James Harvey’s Singularity Podcast: We are Singularia

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This is my first singularity podcast. I intend to do many more interviews like that so that we can spark the discussion about the singularity with the help of some of the best and brightest people that I can get to do a podcast for the benefit of us all. My guest today is Australian [...]

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The Holodeck is Near: Immersive Media and the Singularity

by James Harvey

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In the predicted coming of a technology assisted Singularity could there be an alternative to an AI, Cyborg or Agent Smith mutation where we evolve into post-human replicants? Is the transformation of biology, at an atomic level, encoded as 0′s and 1’s the only solution, or inevitable consequence, to harnessing some assumed uber-processing power in [...]

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Singularity Goes Mainstream: NY Times Says Humans Are “So Yesterday”

by Socrates

Last Friday the New York Times published a long and well researched article on the technological singularity called: Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday by Ashlee Vance The article makes a genuine effort to cover all the basics, the pros and the cons of the singularitarian movement and, overall, in my opinion is pretty successful at [...]

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Debating the Singularity: Eliezer Yudkowsky vs Massimo Pigliucci

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This is a very interesting video debate on the technological singularity between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Massimo Pigliucci from BloggingHeads.tv Eliezer Yudkowsky is a research fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor in philosophy at the City University of New York. Related articles by Zemanta Michael Anissimov at Foresight [...]

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We are Witnesses

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I recently saw this cool YouTube video called “We are Witnesses” and wanted to share it with you all. According to its brief description it is “A quick jaunt through the major transformations of the past six million years, and a few thoughts on the biggest transformation of them all — coming very soon.” As [...]

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Philosopher David Chalmers on the Singularity

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This is a great video of Australian philosopher David Chalmers presenting during the Singularity Summit 2009. Click the link if you want to read David Chalmers’ full paper called The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis.

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Michael Anissimov at Foresight 2010: Don’t Fear the Singularity, But Be Careful

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This is an interesting video of Michael Anissimov at Foresight 2010. Michael is Media Director for the Singularity Institute and Fundraising Director, North America for the Lifeboat Foundation. He is a science/technology writer and “futurist”, which, as stated on his popular blog Accelerating Future, means someone who makes educated guesses about speculative technological probabilities. Related [...]

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Vinge, Stross, Schroeder and Reynolds on the Singularity

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An interesting video of science fiction writers Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, Karl Schroeder and Alastair Reynolds discussing the concept of the Technological Singularity, its likelihood, alternatives and so on. (The video runs about 55 mins long and the sound is not ideal but in my opinion it is still well worth watching.) The Singularity: An [...]

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Ray Kurzweil on Brain-Computer Interfaces

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A video of Ray Kurzweil discussing the future of BCI (Brain-Computer Interfaces) at a workshop at the X-Prize lab in MIT, January 2010. This workshop was co-sponsored by Singularity University.

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Do you want to live forever? (the full documentary)

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Here is the full documentary film directed by Christopher Sykes about the eccentric and radical gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey and his quest for immortality: So, how about you? Do you want to live forever?

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Top 10 Singularitarians of All Time

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The technological singularity is the event or sequence thereof likely to occur at or after the birth of AI, especially when Artificial Intelligence surpasses biological i.e. human intelligence. Since it is human intelligence which, in one way or another, is still the primary cause and ultimate mover behind AI, there are a number of people [...]

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Dawn of the Kill-Bots: the Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arming of AI (part 5)

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Part 5: The Future of (Military) AI — Singularity While being certainly dangerous for humans, especially the ones that are specifically targeted by the kill-bots, arming machines is not on its own a process that can threaten the reign of homo sapiens in general. What can though is the fact that it is occurring within [...]

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Welcome to Singularity Blog

by Socrates

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“Will technology replace biology?” This is the question. Singularity Blog is a journal of Socrates’ thoughts on news, issues and people related to the Technological Singularity. Here Socrates will not shy to provide his opinion but will place no claim on its superiority. Socrates’ goal is to use his blog as a stage for a [...]

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