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Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University, told The Sunday Times: “What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue. We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there
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Cyborg-skalbaggar! Pentagons senaste experiment.
Smart machines: To make it clear—these beetles are not robots, but cyborgs. They are actually living creatures that have been implemented with electronic parts to influence their movements, not unlike reigns on a horse. To help them adjust, this “modification” takes place in the pupa stage when they are still developing. When they are fully grown, the beetles can be commanded by electric signals controlled by a laptop that are transmitted to their nervous systems. Researchers at the Agiltron Corporation, who are contracted to the project, plan to implement another system in the insects that will have them twitch when they detect hazardous chemicals.
Other, more vocal insets, like crickets, are also lined up for modification. They will be equipped with MEMS transceivers that will receive specific sounds made by other cyborg crickets, formulate the data and carry it on to other insects. This will create a sort of wireless network of information that can be remotely monitored.
Bra introduktion till Singulariteten för den oinvigde.
The phrase “technological singularity” was coined by the mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge in 1982. He proposed that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence would greatly disrupt our ability to model the future, because to know what smarter-than-human intelligences would do would require us to be that smart ourselves. He called this hypothetical event a “Singularity,” drawing a comparison to the way our model of physics breaks down when trying to predict phenomena past the event horizon of a black hole. Instead of having a sudden rupture in the fabric of spacetime, you’d have a break in the fabric of human understanding.
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it’s when some almost human-level AGI algorithms, on petaflop computers, are let loose on exaflop supercomputers, that machine super intelligence might suddenly come into being – with results that might be completely unpredictable.
The Singularity Summit is the premier dialog on the Singularity.
The first Singularity Summit was held at Stanford in 2006 to further understanding and discussion about the Singularity concept and the future of human technological progress. It was founded as a venue for leading thinkers to explore the subject, whether scientist, enthusiast, or skeptic.
Since 2006, the scope of this dialog has expanded dramatically. In 2008, the Singularity entered mainstream consideration. IEEE Spectrum, a sober and mainstream technology publication, issued a special report on the Singularity, and Intel CTO Justin Rattner remarked that “we’re making steady progress toward the Singularity” during his keynote to 2,000 people at the Intel Developer Forum. What was once a relatively unknown concept is now being discussed in corporate board rooms.
We invite you to join our extraordinary group of visionaries in business, science, technology, design, and the arts, as our community explores this exciting topic. Your participation offers a world of powerful ideas, a unique networking opportunity, and access to an exclusive directory of your peers.
Många bra föredrag finns uppladdade på Vimeo av Michael Anissimov.
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Nytt sätt att visa upp den periodiska tabellen. Originalartikeln finns på arxiv och är skriven av Mohd Abubakr.
Fantastisk artikel om H1N1, den så kallade Svininfluensan, med sköna paralleller till programmering.
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Researchers from The University of Tokyo Shinoda lab have figured out a way to add touch to holograms.
First, they utilize an LCD-based, concave mirror, holographic display for displaying the 3D images. Using this display, images appear to float 30cm away from the display surface. Second, they use a couple of Wii controllers for hand tracking in order to determine the user’s hand location with respect to the displayed objects. Third, they provide tactile feedback using their own Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display (AUTD.) The device uses acoustic radiation pressure to induce tactile feedback as users interact with the displayed objects.
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
