| The Landscape of Possible IntelligencesWe can distinguish several categories of elementary minds in relation to bootstrapping:
1) A mind capable of imagining, or identifying a greater mind.
2) A mind capable of imaging but incapable of designing a greater mind.
3) A mind capable of designing a greater mind.
We fit the first criteria, but it is unclear whether we are of the second or third type of mind. There is also a fourth type, which follows the third:
4) A mind capable of generating a greater mind which in turn itself creates a greater mind, and so on. |
| Intel: Human and computer intelligence will merge in 40 yearsJuly 23, 2008 (Computerworld) At Intel Corp., just passing its 40th anniversary and with myriad chips in its historical roster, a top company exec looks 40 years into the future to a time when human intelligence and machine intelligence have begun to merge. |
| Numenta Is Imitating Your BrainA startup's approach to advanced pattern recognition could trump rivals' in the hunt to capitalize on finding trends in large streams of data |
| Do We Think That Machines Can Think?In the fMRI study, reported in PLoS ONE, Krach and colleagues investigated how the increase of human-likeness of interaction partners modulates the participants' brain activity |
| A Robot That Learns to Use ToolsThe robot--called the UMass Mobile Manipulator, or UMan--pushes objects around on a table to see how they move. Once it identifies an object's moving parts, it begins to experiment with it, manipulating it to perform tasks. |
| Magnet puts tongue in the driver's seatThe movement of the magnet is detected by sensors mounted on a dental retainer and attached on the outside of the teeth. It measures the magnetic field from different angles and provides continuous real-time measurements.
These measurements are then transmitted wirelessly to a portable computer, which can be carried on the user's clothing or wheelchair. |
| Quarter of the planet to be online by 2012Researchers are predicting that one quarter of the world's population will be connected to the internet within the next four years..
According to the report by Jupiter Research, the total number of people online will climb to 1.8 billion by 2012, encompassing roughly 25 percent of the planet. |
| The coming convergenceImagine direct communication links between the human brain and machines, or tailored materials capable of adapting by themselves to changing environmental conditions, or computer chips and environmental sensors embedded into everyday clothing, or medical technologies that eliminate currently untreatable conditions such as blindness and paralysis. Now imagine all of these developments occurring at the same time. Far-fetched? Not so. These are actually the reasonable predictions of scientists attempting to forecast a few decades into the future based on the rapid pace of innovation. |
| Microchips Everywhere: a Future VisionSome of the world's largest corporations are vested in the success of RFID technology, which couples highly miniaturized computers with radio antennas to broadcast information about sales and buyers to company databases. |
| Creating a Web of WorldsMetaplace is building a system that's designed to treat virtual worlds like other content on the Web, Koster says. A virtual world, he explains, is simply a place where multiple users can interact with one another or with objects built for that world. Metaplace is designed to allow users to host these places on the Web the way they might host embedded video, and to build them the way they might build other content on the Web. |
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