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The Singularity Summit 2010: Day One | h+ Magazine - (Build 20100722150226)
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?
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.
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2010 Singularity Research Challenge | Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence - (Build 20100722150226)
2010 Singularity Research Challenge Offering unusually good philanthropic returns " meaning greater odds of a positive Singularity and lesser odds of human extinction " the Singularity Institute has launched a new challenge campaign. The sponsors, Edwin Evans, Rolf Nelson, Henrik Jonsson, Jason Joachim, and Robert Lecnik, have generously put up $100,000 of matching funds, so that every donation you make until February 28th will be matched dollar for dollar. If the campaign is successful, it will raise a full $200,000 to fund SIAI's 2010 activities. Starting this campaign, we've put more details of our ongoing and potential work online than ever before, so you can get an overview of what projects we're doing, and so you can easily fund the proposals you support most.
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.
The Singularity Institute presents The Singularity Summit 2010 , a conference that explores the impact of science and technology on society. It takes place August 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. 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.
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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.
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A Selection of Singularity Summit 2010 Coverage This year's Singularity Summit was held in San Francisco a few days ago, and generated a fair amount of coverage. The event was largely focused on artificial intelligence and other topics not directly related to engineering greater human longevity, but there were nevertheless one or two interesting presentations that touched on related science.Accelerating Future » Singularity Summit 2010 Tweets and Links - (Build 20100722150226)
An article from a Palm Beach newspaper mentions how "Singularity has become a popular topic of discussion recently at the Fort Lauderdale-based James Randi Educational Foundation." There are hundreds more tweets if you search the tag. My favorite part of Singularity Summit? Working and talking w/ Michael, Amy, Aruna, the dozens of amazing volunteers that helped put together this event behind the scenes, and the donors that make SIAI's existence possible.
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.
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.