September 8, 200718 yr Aaah! THe robots are going to be smarter than us! "Coming to Grips With Intelligent Machines CNet (09/07/07) Olsen, Stefanie The Singularity Summit taking place this weekend in San Francisco will bring together accomplished technologists and investors to discuss the benefits and risks involved with advancing artificial intelligence, technical issues involved in accelerating technology in a variety of fields, and what to do if machine intelligence ever surpasses human intelligence. Foresight Nanotech Institute vice president Christine Peterson says singularity refers to "a period of accelerating technology change that our species has never faced before. So the question is how do we address the issue of change so rapid that it becomes difficult to project how it will affect us?" Futurists, scientists, and science fiction writers continue to predict futures where humans and robots become more similar thanks to bioengineering and brain-computer interfaces. "The summit is about how we may be developing technology that could expand beyond intelligence as we know it," says Tyler Emerson, executive director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and summit chair. "And that could be shaped in either a favorable way or it could swing the other way. It will depend on the choices we make." Other speakers at the conference include Stanford University's Paul Saffo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Rodney Brooks, and Yale University's Wendell Wallach. Singularity Institute director Ray Kurzweil will provide a 30-minute talk via videoconference." full article is here: http://news.com.com/Coming+to+grips+with+intelligent+machines/2100-11394_3-6206637.html
September 8, 200718 yr Author Aaah! THe robots are going to be smarter than us! "Coming to Grips With Intelligent Machines CNet (09/07/07) Olsen, Stefanie The Singularity Summit taking place this weekend in San Francisco will bring together accomplished technologists and investors to discuss the benefits and risks involved with advancing artificial intelligence, technical issues involved in accelerating technology in a variety of fields, and what to do if machine intelligence ever surpasses human intelligence. Foresight Nanotech Institute vice president Christine Peterson says singularity refers to "a period of accelerating technology change that our species has never faced before. So the question is how do we address the issue of change so rapid that it becomes difficult to project how it will affect us?" Futurists, scientists, and science fiction writers continue to predict futures where humans and robots become more similar thanks to bioengineering and brain-computer interfaces. "The summit is about how we may be developing technology that could expand beyond intelligence as we know it," says Tyler Emerson, executive director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and summit chair. "And that could be shaped in either a favorable way or it could swing the other way. It will depend on the choices we make." Other speakers at the conference include Stanford University's Paul Saffo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Rodney Brooks, and Yale University's Wendell Wallach. Singularity Institute director Ray Kurzweil will provide a 30-minute talk via videoconference." full article is here: http://news.com.com/Coming+to+grips+with+intelligent+machines/2100-11394_3-6206637.html
September 8, 200718 yr The sooner I have a robot to clean my house, change the oil in my car, mow my lawn and make me food, the better.
September 8, 200718 yr The sooner I have a robot to clean my house, change the oil in my car, mow my lawn and make me food, the better.
September 8, 200718 yr Author The sooner I have a robot to clean my house, change the oil in my car, mow my lawn and make me food, the better. Yeah, until it gets smart enough to trick you into giving it the house and car and making YOU clean them.
September 8, 200718 yr Author The sooner I have a robot to clean my house, change the oil in my car, mow my lawn and make me food, the better. Yeah, until it gets smart enough to trick you into giving it the house and car and making YOU clean them.
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