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Category: Machine Intelligence

Foresight Unconference on nanotechnology, advanced software, future technologies

Registration is now open to new and renewing Senior Associate members; cost for Senior Associate members to attend the meeting is $65. Space is limited. Join us! —Christine 1st Foresight Unconference to Be Held November 3-4 in Silicon Valley Event will explore nanotechnology, advanced software, life extension, future technologies Palo Alto, CA — Foresight Nanotech… Continue reading Foresight Unconference on nanotechnology, advanced software, future technologies

Nanotechnology & more at Foresight Vision Weekend, Nov. 3-4

We are very pleased to announce the dates and location of the 2007 Foresight Vision Weekend, to be held November 3-4 in at Yahoo! headquarters here in Silicon Valley. We’ve learned that you demand a highly interactive meeting, so this year we’ll be experimenting with a new format including big chunks of time for the… Continue reading Nanotechnology & more at Foresight Vision Weekend, Nov. 3-4

Nanotechnology and the wildcard of advanced software

Nanotech experiments using real molecules are expensive and slow. Progress in nanotechnology would be greatly increased by highly advanced software truly able to model how molecules interact to make materials, devices, and systems. What are the odds of highly advanced software — machine intelligence — being developed any time soon? Explore this question at the… Continue reading Nanotechnology and the wildcard of advanced software

Brilliant Minds forecast nanotechnology

Over at NewScientist.com, they’ve collected the 50-year forecasts of 70 “brilliant” scientists. Topics covered include nanotechnology and the control of physical matter, machine intelligence, and life extension. Here are a few excerpts: Peter Atkins, a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Oxford, on nanobio and synthetic life: Computers will continue to illuminate chemistry. It is… Continue reading Brilliant Minds forecast nanotechnology

Reserve now for Summit with Drexler, Kurzweil, Hofstadter, Thiel, Jurvetson, etc. & moi

Reservations are now open for the Singularity Summit at Stanford, and based on the booking numbers I’ve just heard, we should expect the event to fill early. If you want to attend, it would be wise to reserve your seat right now. Eric Drexler will speak on productive nanosystems, Ray Kurzweil on how fast change… Continue reading Reserve now for Summit with Drexler, Kurzweil, Hofstadter, Thiel, Jurvetson, etc. & moi

Reynolds interviews Kurzweil: Nanotech's role in AI

In the popular blog Instapundit, Foresight director Glenn Reynolds interviews Foresight advisor Ray Kurzweil on the topic of his new book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Some excerpts: “Achieving the hardware requirement was controversial when my last book on this topic, The Age of Spiritual Machines, came out in 1999, but is… Continue reading Reynolds interviews Kurzweil: Nanotech's role in AI

Singularity Institute on "3 Laws"

Tyler Emerson writes "In anticipation of 20th Century Foxís July 16th release of I, Robot, the Singularity Institute announces ì3 Laws Unsafeî ì3 Laws Unsafeî explores the problems presented by Isaac Asimovís Three Laws of Robotics, the principles intended for ensuring that robots help, but never harm, humans. The Three Laws are widely known and are often taken seriously as reasonable solutions for guiding future AI. But are they truly reasonable? ì3 Laws Unsafeî addresses this question."

Update to Friendly AI theory

Eliezer Yudkowsky writes "I've posted an update to the Friendliness part of Friendly AI theory. The essay is called Collective Volition and it's currently located on the SL4 Wiki. The essay isn't technical; the update describes my most recent thoughts about the what-it-does of a Friendly AI, the thing that this ultrapowerful superintelligent recursively self-improving optimization process is supposed to do, if the Singularity Institute can get it running. If I don't hear any objections between now and the Singularity, I'll assume the entire human species is okay with this and I can go ahead and do it."

Robot scientist may speed nanotech progress

WesDuCharme writes "The chicken and egg puzzle of whether AI might lead to molecular nanotechnology or vice versa is an interesting one. This abstract in Nature, reported more fully here here describes an intriguing first step in the genetics arena.

As reported in The Globe and Mail, ìThis week, a group of researchers in Britain unveiled the Robot Scientist, a device five years in the making. Not only can it ask, "What if?" it can also design some experiments to test its hypothesis, carry out those experiments and, finally, analyze the data collected before confirming or altering its hypothesis.î

Although the Robot Scientist was only going over ground already covered, the potential for speeding up scientific progress seems clear. Anyone feel timetables tightening?

Kurzweil rebuts Scientific American on machine intelligence

Foresight advisor Ray Kurzweil has responded to a critique of his views on machine intelligence by Scientific American: "If you do the thought experiment of considering the implications of multiple generations of technology, the availability over the next several decades of enormous increases in the capacity of our computational andcommunication tools, the advent of molecularnanotechnology, and far greater insight into the principles of operation of the human brain, I believe that our perspectives will converge.
Ray is always so polite…Note that SciAm's views on Bjorn Lomborg were recently (and vehemently) overturned by the Danish Minstry of Science. This is not the SciAm we remember from our youth.–CP

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