The Origin of the Universe - Stephen Hawking. The Origin of the Universe This lecture is the intellectual property of Professor S.W.Hawking.
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Hawking shouldn’t be able to do the things he now does. The 73-year-old shouldn’t be able to deliver meditations on the existence of God. He shouldn’t be able to fret over artificial intelligence or humanity’s capacity for self-destruction. And he most definitely shouldn’t be able to attend the BAFTAs — Britain’s academy awards — settled inside the wheelchair that has carried him for decades, expressing admiration for a recent biopic that paid homage to his struggle.
But yet, he is. It’s difficult to overstate the lethality of ALS, the condition with which Hawking lives. Eddie Redmayne and Stephen Hawking attend Baftas after show party at the Grosvenor House Hotel “He is exceptional,” Nigel Leigh, a professor of clinical neurology at King’s College London, told the British Medical Journal in 2002. This description is not in any way unusual. So what makes Hawking different from the rest? Hawking’s battle with ALS was different from the beginning. Bill Gates Joins Stephen Hawking in Fears of a Coming Threat from "Superintelligence" Bill Gates has jumped into the fray over concerns of a coming machine superintelligence.
He did so in a recent Q&A at reddit, reports TechRadar: Gates was asked: "How much of an existential threat do you think machine superintelligence will be? " He admitted: "I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. " He took a somewhat more measured stance than Hawking, but sees AI as a real concern. "First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. Superintelligence is the currently trending idea of soon-to-come super-smart robots, the latest iteration of the decades-old dream of Artificial Intelligence (AI): machines that think like humans. Stephen Hawking Praises 'Theory of Everything' Oscar Winner. Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking took to Facebook last night to congratulate actor Eddie Redmayne for winning the best actor Oscar at the 2015 Academy Awards for "The Theory of Everything," a biopic about Hawking's life and his debilitating illness.
"Well done Eddie, I'm very proud of you," Hawking wrote on the social network after yesterday's ceremony (Feb. 23). Hawking had previously congratulated Redmayne on winning a Golden Globe award for the role. Of Redmayne's portrayal of him, Hawking wrote, "At times, I thought he was me. " In the film, Redmayne depicts Hawking's physical decline following a diagnosis of motor neuron disease, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
[See photos from "The Theory of Everything"] Redmayne brilliantly captures Hawking's transition from a vivacious young man racing around on bikes to needing a cane, then two canes, and eventually being confined to a wheelchair. Stephen Hawking Predicts Aggression Will Destroy Us — But Is He Right? Experts say it depends on how you define “aggression.”
(Photo: Eleanor Bentall/Corbis) Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the most renowned geniuses of our time. He’s also one of the most insightful and, as it follows, quotable. And earlier this week, Hawking— portrayed by best actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything — dropped a doozy. While speaking at the Science Museum in London, The Independent reported, Hawking said: “The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. … It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.”