Another major leap for science & maybe for mankind (depends on the mission)?.
http://www.livescience.com/55662-darpa-submarine-hunter-completes-tests.html
The U.S. is set to launch an unmaned submarine hunting ship in 2018.
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Robot hackers could be the future of cybersecurity @DARPA #DARPACGC @defcon #technology #defcon
Hackers fighting hackers; wonder what will happen in another20 years when super humans start to become more and more introduced into the mainstream, in this space. Stating dark web hackers will not have access to BMI and other enhancing technologies is not reality either.
The final round of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge pits computers against one another as human programmers watch the future of cybersecurity unfold.
Welcome to DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
The ultimate test of wits in computer security occurs through open competition on the global Capture the Flag (CTF) tournament circuit. In CTF contests, experts reverse engineer software, probe its weaknesses, search for deeply hidden flaws, and create securely patched replacements.
On August 4, 2016, DARPA will hold the Cyber Grand Challenge, the world’s first all-computer CTF tournament. It will take place live on stage co-located with the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas. The public is invited to attend and observe as automated systems take the first steps towards a defensible, connected future.
Learn more about the Cyber Grand Challenge at: http://www.cybergrandchallenge.com/.
FOREVER Identity: create your eternity
FOREVER Identity offers three distinct products to create and preserve your identity, biography, memory, personality, and physical aspects; and then, allowing interaction with future generations. FOREVER Identity combines artificial intelligence, decision, ethic and moral engines, semantic and ontology experts to provide cutting-edge products.
Russia’s Nerekhta-2 Combat Robot to Be Presented in 2016
The Russian Nerekhta-2 combat robot’s new capabilities will be showcased at a proving ground in late 2016, Deputy Director General for Advanced Research Fund told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Nerekhta-2 will be equipped with a new type of ammunition and will be capable of tackling enemies larger and stronger than itself, according to Igor Denisov.
“We have chosen the Nerekhta platform as the most suitable for making a number of changes, this is a ‘lab’ for testing the most promising solutions for ground robots supporting combat operations, including in the city. I think we will show the Nerekhta’s new capabilities at a proving ground at the end of the year. It will have an air component, there will be additional automation elements,” Denisov said.
Religion plays a role in attitudes toward human enhancement technologies
Technology is amazing and can be used to help so many. When I position technology; I do so in showing how it helps folks to combat devastating diseases, live life fully even if they became paralyzed at some point in their life and with technology they can walk again, etc. I caution folks to ensure that when we introduce technology that we explain our message well to the broader masses; or risk not be adopted.
We have to do a better job in explaining how AI, BMI, etc. will help the population. When we present things like BMI, Cell Circuitry, etc. we must market how folks used the technology to combat a disease, a disability, or be able to live a more fuller life, etc. I keep seeing either no message or the wrong message being presented to the masses. Instead of waiting for the technology being available; we must take consumers on a journey of possibilities that they can have with tech.
Most Americans are put off by the idea of using science to “enhance” human abilities — and these attitudes are strongly connected with people’s religiosity.
That’s according to a new Pew Research Center survey, which looked at public attitudes about human enhancement technologies.
We may all want to be sharp, strong and healthy but, as the survey found, most people are worried about the use of emerging biomedical technologies that seek to push the boundaries of human capacities.
Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck’s Accelerator and Brakes
This is the type of hijacking that the US DHS has been worried about. And, now we’re looking at self-driving Big Rigs and commercial jets.; as I stated last year I would hesitate in allowing autonomous planes and Big Rigs until we have a breech proof connected infrastructure in place.
As researchers demonstrate digital attacks on a 33,000 pound truck, car hacking is moving beyond consumer vehicles.
How computer algorithms shape our experience of the real world
Interesting and true on many situations; and will only expand as we progress in areas of AI, QC, and Singularity as well.
The use of algorithms to filter and present information online is increasingly shaping our everyday experience of the real world, a study published by Information, Communication & Society argues.
Associate Professor Michele Willson of Curtin University, Perth, Australia looked at particular examples of computer algorithms and the questions they raise about personal agency, changing world views and our complex relationship with technologies.
Algorithms are central to how information and communication are located, retrieved and presented online, for example in Twitter follow recommendations, Facebook newsfeeds and suggested Google map directions. However, they are not objective instructions but assume certain parameters and values, and are in constant flux, with changes made by both humans and machines.