The 2010 Singularity Summit takes place this weekend in San Francisco with an exciting lineup of speakers including Shane Legg, Irene Pepperberg, Ray Kurzweil, and the Institute’s own Michael Vassar and Eliezer Yudkowsky. The primary focus seems to be on the emergence of new bio and AI technology and the evolution of intelligence. It should be a fascinating conference. If you aren’t able to make it, stay tuned for links to videos of some of the talks.
The Singularity: talking in pirate vs. pastrami on rye http://bit.ly/9xZgFh # Robert Anton Wilson on Moore's Law. And a lot of scrolling pyramids http://youtu.be/Q472Gf9Zd9k # New site for ACCELERATION- a documentary in production w/Singularity themes-thx for support/feedback http://accelerationthemovie.com/ # Powered by Twitter Tools
Looking for a quick way to understand the Singularity? Perhaps "quick" may be a little bit of an overstatement, but GOOD online magazine has a fairly easy to access series that, penned in part by the Singularity Institute's Michael Anissimov, can bring you up to speed.
Want to learn more about Machine Learning- a lot more? Check out this course from Stanford's Engineering Department. All 20 sessions are available on YouTube. Hint: Math is helpful.
Jaron Lanier on the Singularity http://bit.ly/ciZidy # Plan to head back to San Francisco in a couple weeks for Singularity Summit. Still ironing out details but dm me if you're around! # Powered by Twitter Tools
Jaron Lanier has a recent 'anti-Singularity' Op-Ed in the New York Times. This Bloggingheads episode from 2008 features Eliezer Yudkowsky (Less Wrong, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) and Jaron Lanier (tech visioneer, author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto)
Corey Doctorow introduces us to Rudy Rucker, who has taken the novel step of creating specifically non-Singularity-themed science fiction plots to break up the monotony. In other words, it is rather challenging for SF creators to imagine a world in which technology does not take over. Of course, we were promised flying cars.
How Much it Matters to Know What Matters: A Back of the Envelope Calculation from Singularity Institute on Vimeo. Anna Salamon of the Singularity Institute explains why putting resources into planning for the Singularity is statistically rational.
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