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Jun 20, 2016
Musk: Half of Cars Made in 7 or 8 Years Will Be Driverless
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Jun 20, 2016
Two inventions deal with virtual-reality sickness | KurzweilAI
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: virtual reality
“Columbia Engineering researchers announced earlier this week that they have developed a simple way to reduce VR motion sickness that can be applied to existing consumer VR devices, such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PlayStation VR, Gear VR, and Google Cardboard devices.”
Jun 19, 2016
‘Within Ten Years 50% of Americans Will Be Chipped’ – Tech Pioneer
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: business, geopolitics, military, neuroscience, transhumanism
An article & short interview on implants with Sputnik:
The US Navy has held talks with “Transhumanist” and presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan, who told Radio Sputnik about the US military’s concerns.
Last week it emerged that US naval officers have held discussions with Zoltan Istvan of the Transhumanist political party, who is also running as a candidate for the US presidency.
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Jun 19, 2016
The black hole jets that ‘punch’ out of their galaxies
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: cosmology
Dr Alexander Tchekhovskoy from the University of California, Berkeley and Dr Omer Bromberg from Hebrew University came up with a simulation demonstrating the powerful jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centres of the largest galaxies.
The simulation explains why some black holes burst forth as bright beacons visible across the universe, while others fall apart and never pierce the halo of the galaxy.
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Jun 19, 2016
Genetically enhancing our children could raise interest rates
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: bioengineering, business, economics, genetics, government, neuroscience
Always a trickle down effect on things that improve or change. Just reconfirms and reminds us organically how everything is indeed connected.
Capital tends to have greater value the more skilled and educated the workforce. Anticipating genetically enhanced workers would cause firms to want to invest more now in new equipment and buildings. Many assets, such as real estate and intellectual property, become more valuable the richer a society and so expectations of a much higher economic growth rate would cause companies to spend more buying and developing these assets so that businesses, as well as governments, will wish to borrow more when they realize the potential of human genetic engineering.
Many individuals will reduce their savings rate in anticipation of a future richer society. Today, fear that Social Security won’t survive motivates many Americans to save, but this fear and so this incentive for saving would disappear once genetic engineering for intelligence proves feasible. Furthermore, many citizens would rationally expect future government benefits to senior citizens to increase in a world made richer by genetic engineering and this expectation would reduce the perceived need to save for retirement.
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Jun 19, 2016
Machine Intelligence Will Let Us All Work Like CEOs
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Working like a CEO; hmmm. Do they realize how hard many CEOs work? I am not talking about the Jamie Diamons or the Bezos of the world; but the majority CEOs in the world.
Get ready for a team of automated assistants.
Jun 19, 2016
Is the US Navy planning to implant people with microchips?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: geopolitics, neuroscience, Ray Kurzweil, transhumanism
Steps moving forward to make enhance human intelligence real — definitely would mean a major leap forward in achieving Kurzweil’s and Zolstaf Zoltan Istvan’s super humans.
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan, from Calfornia, and presidential candidate, met with senior officials from the US navy to discuss policies on how to deal with microchip implants (pictured).
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Jun 19, 2016
Microsoft Bringing Outlook and Calendar to HoloLens
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: augmented reality, information science
Wait until you see with Dynamics CRM and AX as well as SharePoint, PowerBI, Skype, PowerPont and Excel just to name a few other ones besides what can be done already with Azure and big data.
Checking you email might not be so bad if you’re using AR.
By Emma Boyle
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Jun 19, 2016
Dark bots: The cat-and-mouse game begins
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, robotics/AI, security
Will the good bots finish last in the war of bots? Dark bots are definitely not that easily stopped by AI in companies.
The bot era is here, and the world has already begun to see its transformative potential. But like any technology, there will be bad bots as predictably as good ones. With every advancement, there are people looking to exploit it. Anticipating what they might do is key so that builders, developers, and users can prevent, preempt, and prepare.
Here are the “dark bots” we’re likely to see:
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