| The Minority Viewpoint of AGIIn contrast, when I discuss my theories with competent people from other fields, such as Biology, they will nod their heads vigorously and say, “Of course, all along I’ve been thinking it has to be something like this”. This is also true for many people without any science education, since these theories are quite congruent with naive ideas of how the mind works. |
| The Rise of the MachinesAlthough the top three countries are in Asia, Europe gets the regional title as the epicenter of global automation; it has a robot density of 50, compared to 31 in the Americas and 27 in the Asia/Pacific region |
| Shaping - Business responds to Accelerating ChangeThe Greek mathematician Archimedes used to say he only needed a lever to move the whole world. Today Archimedes might be a shaper, someone who has the aspirations, mind-set, management capabilities and capacity for risk to revolutionize an industry. Just think of the changes wrought by the telephone and steam engine in an earlier era, and by the personal computer, social networks, cell phones and Internet advertising today, and you can begin to understand the ways in which shapers can upend perceptions of risk and reward. Innovative companies can’t simply adapt to change; they need to instigate that change before the ground shifts from under them. Shapers alter mindsets; they shake things up — and they can move worlds. |
| 14 Organizing Principals of the 2nd EnlightenmentThe following table suggests an evolution of key principles of how society has been organized in the Industrial Age and how we expect these principles to morph as society becomes more complex, integrated and constantly changing. These undergird the basis for the idea of a need for a Second Enlightenment |
| Can Novamente’s virtual dogs make a Nintendog look dumb?A Nintendog’s behaviors were scripted, its personality restricted to a handful of breeds. On the other hand, Novamente, a company that aims eventually to develop a super-smart artificial intelligence (AI), says that its current technology will make such limitations remnants of the past. |
| Shrinks Help Drone Pilots Cope With Robo-ViolenceFlying drones from halfway across the world used to be considered a cushy, if somewhat sterile, military job. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone on for so long -- and become so dependent on the satellite-piloted planes -- that Air Force commanders have had to call in chaplains, psychologists and psychiatrists "to help ease the mental strain on these remote-control warriors," the Associated Press reports. |
| IBM And Second Life Announce InteroperabilityToday, Linden Lab (which operates Second Life) and IBM announced that they have successfully bridged two virtual worlds, with avatars from Second Life successfully "teleporting" to an entirely different metaverse based on an OpenSim server. |
| Classical v. RomanticOne way of thinking about causality is mechanical. Reality is a machine constructed from a set of parts - atoms, information, events. The parts are simple, fundamental and substantial. Another equally ancient view of causality is organic. Reality is a system. Its largeness or wholeness is as fundamental as its smallness. It develops by constraint as well as construction. |
| Artificial IntuitionMost humans have not been taught logical thinking, but most humans are still intelligent. Most of our daily actions such as walking, talking, and understanding the world are based on Intuition, not Logic. |
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