Next Xbox AND PlayStation 4 to be unveiled this summer, according to reports By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 19:00 GMT, 7 January 2012 The successor to the Xbox 360 and a follow-up to the PlayStation 3 will be revealed this summer. Microsoft and Sony's new games consoles could be launched at this summer's E3 games show in Los Angeles, according to industry website MCV. This year's show, which takes place in June, will also see Nintendo confirm the details of its Wii U console - the successor to the highly popular Wii. Is this the new design? It will mark the very first time in the show’s 17-year history that three fresh, rival console formats will be so directly comparable. The Xbox 360 launched in 2005, replacing the original Xbox, which was then four years old. According to MCV, Sony is keen to avoid being behind Microsoft in the release schedule again and so is planning an earlier than expected announcement. Another view of the future if the Techlabs website is to be believed Online speculation around the claim is growing.
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium [Translations: Japanese] Here is why you don’t have to worry about the Singularity in your lifetime: thinkism doesn’t work. First, some definitions. According to Wikipedia, the Singularity is “a theoretical future point of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.” I agree with parts of that. Let’s say that on Kurzweil’s 97th birthday, February 12, 2045, a no-kidding smarter-than-human AI is recognized on the web. Ray Kurzweil, whom I greatly admire, is working to “cross the bridge to the bridge.” Setting aside the Maes-Garreau effect, the major trouble with this scenario is a confusion between intelligence and work. Let’s take curing cancer or prolonging longevity. There is no doubt that a super AI can accelerate the process of science, as even non-AI computation has already speed it up. Because thinkism doesn’t work, you can relax.
The Greatest Toilet Seat Ive Ever Seen The Singularity Is Far In this post, I wish to propose for the reader’s favorable consideration a doctrine that will strike many in the nerd community as strange, bizarre, and paradoxical, but that I hope will at least be given a hearing. The doctrine in question is this: while it is possible that, a century hence, humans will have built molecular nanobots and superintelligent AIs, uploaded their brains to computers, and achieved eternal life, these possibilities are not quite so likely as commonly supposed, nor do they obviate the need to address mundane matters such as war, poverty, disease, climate change, and helping Democrats win elections. Last week I read Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near, which argues that by 2045, or somewhere around then, advances in AI, neuroscience, nanotechnology, and other fields will let us transcend biology, upload our brains to computers, and achieve the dreams of the ancient religions, including eternal life and whatever simulated sex partners we want.
Programmable Tattoo System Posted on January 12, 2012 by saya To have or not to have a tattoo is no more a bothersome problem, as you can now freely change its shapes or relocate the tattoo with the “moodINQ” Programmable Tattoo System. It utilizes a skin-safe proprietary E ink encapsulated pigment system, which not only lasts a lifetime but can be configured to display any design (or none!) That’s undeniably good news to tattoo fanciers, who could conveniently change their tattoos to suit their moods, while without any pain! Feel excited about that right?
Can Machines Be Conscious? So when you look at the dark screen, you rule out not just ”light” but countless other possibilities. You don't think of the stupefying number of possibilities, of course, but their mere existence corresponds to a huge amount of information. Conscious experience consists of more than just differentiating among many states, however. Consciousness does not seem to require many of the things we associate with being human We think that the difference between you and the camera has to do with integrated information. By contrast, the repertoire of states available to you cannot be subdivided. To be conscious , then, you need to be a single integrated entity with a large repertoire of states. It is possible to work out a theoretical framework for gauging how effective different neural architectures would be at generating integrated information and therefore attaining a conscious state. IIT suggests a way of assessing consciousness in a machine--a Turing Test for consciousness, if you will.
The Bell Witch Web Site - Online home of the Bell Witch of Tennessee Why is AI Dangerous? To put it in a single sentence, I’d say that it’s because only a minority of cognitively possible goal sets place a high priority on the continued survival of human beings and the structures we value. Another reason is that we can’t specify what we value in enough mathematical detail to transfer it to a new species without a lot of requisite hassle. It would be easy if we could just transfer over the goal set of a “typical human” or a “nice person” and hope for the best. But there’s a problem: we have no experimental evidence of what happens when a human being can modify its own goals, or increase its own intelligence and/or physical power exponentially. What little evidence we have of scenarios where people acquire a lot of power in a short amount of time indicates that the outcomes are usually not pretty. In fact, we have complicated democratic mechanisms built into our society to guard against these types of outcomes. Back to the original issue of goal sets.