Singularity Summit Day 2
Here’s day two: Singularity Summit 09 Day 2
2009
Live blogging the Singularity Summit 09
Sitting in the main theater at 92Y, everything is ready for the Singularity Summit to start in New York. Embedded here you will find my live notes from the event for Day 1, and I plan to do the same in a separate post for tomorrow, Day 2. (I am on wifi, and it is …
Stephen Wolfram to speak at Singularity Summit
Stephen Wolfram, author of the book A New Kind Of Science, creator of the Mathematica symbolic calculation software suit, and of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine is a recent addition to the roster of speakers at the Singularity Summit in New York. In a recent webcast the audience in large numbers asked Stephen to comment …
Anders Sandberg, and the Ethics of Uploading
Whole Brain Emulation is going to create synthetic humans, if the functionalist point of view of neuroscience is right, by implementing their thought processes in forthcoming hardware, and software systems, which could arrive as early as the middle of this century. What are the rights of these uploads? How will their existence impact our …
Randal Koene on Whole Brain Emulation
Analyzing, and implementing specific brain functions, in order to complement, or substitute them when impaired has been possible for a long time. Hearing aids, or a simple pair of glasses are well accepted tools helping our senses, and our brain functions. There many leaps that researchers working in the field of neuroengineering want to be …
Singularity Summit 09 coming up in New York
On October 3-4, 2009, the Singularity Summit 09 is held in New York, and it promises to be a very stimulating event. Organized yearly by the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Singinst), it is confronting for the first time an East Coast audience, after its past three editions in California. Invited by Singinst’s President, Michael …
“2009: a year of panic” say Bruce, and Bruno
Bruce Sterling and Bruno Argento are at it again, this time from the pages of SEED magazine, with an article entitled “2009 Will Be a Year of Panic“, spreading their peculiar mix of breathless future, whose well worn form is tinted with skepticism and where the Utopian views thread together with a reality where the …