The Singularity Summit 2010: Day One | h+ Magazine - (Build 20100722150226) Surfdaddy Orca August 15, 2010 Where is human evolution leading us? Can the human brain be reverse engineered? Can we ever create non-human intelligence given the complexities of the molecular biology of a cell? How can AI be used to solve the problem of human aging? Hundreds of AI researchers, robotics experts, philosophers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and interested laypeople crowded the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco for the annual Singularity Summit. "This year, the conference shifts to a focus on neuroscience, bioscience, cognitive enhancement, and other explorations of what Vernor Vinge called 'intelligence amplification' - the other route to the Singularity," said Michael Vassar, president of the Singularity Institute.
The fact that Kurzweil's presentation "The Mind and How to Build One" was telecast rather than live was probably a disappointment to many conference attendees. Singularity Summit 2010: Deep Thinking - (Build 20100722150226) Gadgets Published on August 17th, 2010 | by Greg For those unfamiliar with the term, we’ll be discussing the word Singularity in the context of futurism rather than astronomy.
Coined by Vernor Vinge and popularized by Ray Kurzweil, the term has come to mean the point at which technological progress exceeds our ability to keep up, rendering the future unpredictable in a variety of ways. One of the key notions is that, thanks to Moore’s Law, computing progress is exponential, and that we will likely reach a smarter-than-human artificial intelligence sometime within the next twenty years or so. It might sound a bit crazy- but we decided to dig a bit deeper, and attend the annual Singularity Summit, held last weekend in San Francisco.
It’s similar in some ways to the TED talks- but without much of the emphasis on education or design that render many of those talks so wide-ranging. Which isn’t to say that the program was limited! Our favorite talks were the last two. About the Author. Singularity Summit 2010 in San Francisco to Explore Intelligence Augmentation | Think Gene - (Build 20100722150226)
Kevin: I’ve been volunteering for the Singularity Institute these last few months. Each year, the Singularity Institute hosts the Singularity Summit, a two-day conference in San Francisco this August that may be of interest to many of the readers of this blog. Will it ever become possible to boost human intelligence using brain implants, or create an artificial intelligence smarter than Einstein? In a 1993 paper presented to NASA, science fiction author and mathematician Vernor Vinge called such a hypothetical event a “Singularity“, saying “From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye”. Vinge pointed out that intelligence enhancement could lead to “closing the loop” between intelligence and technology, creating a positive feedback effect. You can watch videos from past summits and register at www.singularitysummit.com.
The Singularity Summit 2010 - (Build 20100722150226) Singularity Summit 2010: Human Health and Body Improvements Innovation Round-Up - (Build 20100722150226) First day of the Singularity Summit 2010 and first round-up of the last innovations and cutting-edge projects in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
The conferences focused more on demos and con crete applications, less on Theory. L’Atelier US was there. Human health and body improvement was a highly discussed subject today. Steve Mann, an eccentric inventor and professor at the University of Toronto, gave the most entertaining show. Another inspiring idea shared by Steve Mann and his music team was his idea about addiction. Mandayam A. A Selection of Singularity Summit 2010 Coverage - (Build 20100722150226) Singularity Summit 2010: No place for human values in a 'posthuman' future? | ZDNet - (Build 20100722150226) It's day one at Singularity Summit 2010 being held at the Hyatt Regency in foggy San Francisco.
Gregory Stock, best-selling author--Redesigning Humans is a transhumanist classic--and biotech entrepreneur, took the stage this morning to offer his take on the coming singularity. Stock, who days earlier stepped down as CEO of Signum Biosciences, explained that he was going to provide a macro-evolutionary perspective on the controversial idea that we're in the midst of an evolutionary breakthrough where life starts taking control of its own evolution and machines eventually become smarter than their makers. But not so fast. "The things that people care most about move at a very slow pace. For instance, where are all the wonder drugs we were promised 10 years ago?
" he asked with an accompanying visual of a Times magazine cover dating from back in 2000 for emphasis. On the flip side, the cost of genome sequencing is collapsing. By adding carbon to silicon, now evolution itself is evolving. THE SINGULARITY SUMMIT 2010 (day 1) - (Build 20100722150226) San Francisco, Hyatt Regency Six hundred very smart people sharing information on artificial intelligence (AI) versus the human mind--silicon versus biocarbon. Can the biorevolution prevail? Interesting funding coming from the Defense Advanced Projects Agency. Tomorrow, a talk on the Future of Energy, plus The Great Randi.
The focus of this weekend, though, is on biocarbon versus silicon versus consciousness into the future. The conference starts at 8AM with a Boudin breakfast and goes on till 7PM, each day (today and tomorrow). I've never sat in for 10 straight hours of lectures at a conference in my life...and the room was still almost at capacity at 7PM. Michael Vassar, President, Singularity Institute (The Darwinian Method) Archimedes was not science (it was progress by genius). Gregory Stock, Signum Biosciences (Evolution and the Posthuman Future) There has been an explosion of biota (four orders of magnitude in six years). Ben Goertzel, CEO of Novamente and Biomind (AI Against Aging) Patrick Takahashi: The Singularity Summit 2010 - (Build 20100722150226) Yes, the recession is now almost a memory, global climate warming is only somewhat impacting Russia and the price of crude oil is stabilized at $76/barrel.
Why then are there regular reports of doomsday around the corner? The Venus Syndrome (novel in process) is coming, and, remember that Mayan prophecy predicting the end in December of 2012. Worse, I'm involved in various virtual forums where a surprisingly high percentage of normally creditable academics fear the dual hammer of the Greenhouse Effect and Peak Oil crushing the world economy. Some actually have formed sustainable societies awating the culling of the world population from 7 billion to 1 billion. Thus, it was refreshing and invigorating for me to experience unbounded optimism at the Singularity Summit gathering in San Francisco this past weekend. Many of us are familiar with the term singularity with respect to mathematics and space. The overwhelming consensus was that singularity was the solution. Said: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.