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May 18, 2016
Space exploration will spur transhumanism and mitigate existential risk
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: alien life, cyborgs, existential risks, geopolitics, policy, robotics/AI, solar power, space travel, sustainability, transhumanism
Friends have been asking me to write something on space exploration and my campaign policy on it, so here it is just out on TechCrunch:
When people think about rocket ships and space exploration, they often imagine traveling across the Milky Way, landing on mysterious planets and even meeting alien life forms.
In reality, humans’ drive to get off Planet Earth has led to tremendous technological advances in our mundane daily lives — ones we use right here at home on terra firma.
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May 17, 2016
U.S. startup pursues self-driving semis but big-rig bots still down the road
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
I do see delays of self-driving 18 wheelers across the US. Too many laws & regulations would need to change, consumer safety & protection advocacy groups, etc. will delay this in the US.
SAN FRANCISCO – Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.
To many, that might seem a frightening idea, even at a time when a few dozen of Google’s driverless cars are cruising city streets in California, Texas, Washington and Arizona.
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May 17, 2016
Researchers teach AI system to run complex physics experiment
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: physics, robotics/AI, space
ACTON, Australia, May 16 (UPI) — A pair of physicists in Australia have trained an artificial intelligence system to replicate the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize.
The experiment involves what is known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the trapping of an ultra-cool gas in a series of lasers.
At just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, Bose-Einstein condensates constitute some of the coldest temperatures in the universe — colder than interstellar space.
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May 16, 2016
Singularity is Near! Full Documentary Michio Kaku | Ray Kurzweil
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, education, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI, singularity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CSNmrunCnA
Michio Kaku and Ray Kurzweil explains the exponential rate at which Technological Singularity is approaching and the future is far near than we can Imagine!
2029 : Singularity Year — Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ray Kurzweil — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU
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May 16, 2016
Nanorobots: Where We Are Today and Why Their Future Has Amazing Potential
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, health, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
This post is a status update on one of the most powerful tools humanity will ever create: nanotechnology (or nanotech).
My goal here is to give you a quick overview of the work going on in labs around the world, and the potential applications this nanotech work will have in health, energy, the environment, materials science, data storage and processing.
As artificial intelligence has been getting a lot of the attention lately, I believe we’re going to start to see and hear about incredible breakthroughs in the nanotech world very soon.
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May 16, 2016
Peter: Nanorobots… Inside You
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, health, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
This blog is a status update on one of the most powerful tools humanity will ever create: Nanotechnology (or nanotech).
My goal here is to give you a quick overview of the work going on in labs around the world, and the potential applications this nanotech work will have in health, energy, the environment, material sciences, data storage and processing.
As artificial intelligence has been getting a lot of the attention lately, I believe we’re going to start to see and hear about incredible breakthroughs in the nanotech world very soon.
May 16, 2016
Disney unveils wall-climbing ‘gravity defying’ robot
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
May 15, 2016
BMW’s First Self-Driving Car to Come Out in 2021
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: law, robotics/AI, transportation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3JAtvsqfF8
CEO Harald Krueger has announced a third electric model in their BMW i series: a self-driving, intelligent luxury car named i Next, to be released by 2021.
Shortly after the announcement of its first two electric models i3 and i8, BMW is confirming its release of a third model in its “BMW i” series. Their first self-driving car, called i Next, is an autonomous, intelligent luxury car which will be released in 2021.
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May 14, 2016
Adapting As Nano Approaches Biological Complexity: Witnessing Human-AI Integration Critically
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: engineering, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Today’s emergence of nano-micro hybrid structures with almost biological complexity is of fundamental interest. Our ability to adapt intelligently to the challenges has ramifications all the way from fundamentally changing research itself, over applications critical to future survival, to posing small and medium as well as truly globally existential dangers.
