Rights?! What rights?!

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What started eight years ago as a short story about a man who falls in love with a sentient hologram has become a passion of mine. That story, “Love With The Proper Hologram”, ultimately became a novel—one that I pitched by asking the following question: “What rights will our intelligent creations have…” What rights indeed? Sorry to say, after six stories and two novels, I don’t have the answer. What I do have, is the certainty that unless we address the subject in advance, tragedy is [...]

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The Once and Future Teacher

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Software is eating up education. Ubiquity of connected devices, school budget pressures and dependency on the publishing industry make education a ripe target for software based disruption. As a result, an increasing number of software companies have been founded in recent years around the idea of making digital education smarter, cheaper and more accessible. The educational market has reacted positively to these new services: enrollment to online courses grew at 17% compared to only 1.5% growth in overall higher education, digital textbooks are expected to account for 35% of the textbook market [...]

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A Mathematical Proof of the Singularity

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The author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has written about the technological singularity, a time when he predicts things will change so rapidly that he likens it to a mathematical singularity. In particular, he postulates the invention of an artificial intelligence capable of re-designing itself, which will inevitably lead to ever-faster progress. To back up his theory, Kurzweil likes to show exponential curves representing the ever-faster development of computer processor performance, the price of transistors, DNA sequencing costs and such like. But just how mathematically rigorous is [...]

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James D. Miller on Singularity 1 on 1: Prepare for a Smarter World

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James D. Miller is a professor of economics and, most recently, the author of Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World. James is the second economist on Singularity 1 on 1 and he respects and agrees with much of Robin Hanson‘s conclusions. In my view, however, Miller’s book Singularity Rising ends up presenting a much richer, more diverse, more balanced, more interesting and, in some ways, more utopian future. [e.g. see his ideas about "honorable unemployment"] During our conversation with [...]

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The Singularity is Nearer: EU Commits 1 Billion To Fund The Human Brain Project

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Dr. Henry Markram’s Human Brain Project recently got 1 billion worth of funding from the European Union. The money will be spread in 100 million dollar payments over the next 10 years and is aimed at scaling up Markram’s past research in simulating parts of a rat brain to the first and most comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer and simulate the complete human brain. The Human Brain Project is a landmark endeavor in modern neuroscience: “It’s like building a giant telescope to peer into deep space, only [...]

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SMART: LifeBEAM to Make The World’s First Smart Cycling Helmet

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Zvika and Omri – two of my Singularity University friends, as well as co-founders of LifeBEAM Technologies, are planning to produce the world’s first smart cycling helmet. The helmet is taking cutting edge tech from the defense and aerospace industries with integrated heart rate sensor, allowing real time, accurate, hassle-free heart-rate monitoring. Now, you can say that I am supporting these two guys because they are my friends – and you will be right. However, I am also a cyclist who is totally fed up with [...]

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HENRi [Sci Fi Film Trailer]

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HENRi is an emotionally powerful short film, which explores human existence at the most fundamental, personal level—what it means to be a conscious individual. Hundreds of years in the future, a derelict spacecraft, controlled and powered by a human brain, floats aimlessly in the outer reaches of space. HENRi, the name of the ship’s power system, is an acronym which stands for Hybrid Electronic / Neuron Responsive Intelligence, and was the first of Earth’s Neuro-Tech space exploration research vessels. Trapped in the cold, mechanical prison of [...]

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