AI and Robotics
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This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human artificial intelligence and the possible ramifications.
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Session Abstracts
Brian Litt and Brain-Computer Interfaces: Past, Present and Future - (Build 20100722150226)
Brain-computer interfaces (aka Brain-Machine Interfaces or Neuroprosthetics), long of interest to science fiction writers and creative thinkers, became a government funded research discipline in the United States beginning in the 1970s. The vision of its architects at DARPA and the National Science Foundation was to restore motor control to soldiers with brain, spinal cord and limb injuries, programs that continue to flourish today. Early devices sampled a variety of neural signals, including scalp EEG and evoked potentials, though the first dramatic successes arose ~ 20 years later from more modern technologies that allowed completely paralyzed (or “locked in”) patients to operate computers or move robotic arms using nothing but their thoughts.
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