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Nov 26, 2017
World’s 1st robot citizen wants her own family, career & AI ‘superpowers’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TGMeZQTkW2Y
The world’s first robot citizen wants to start a family and have a career, but also believes AI will grant her ‘superpowers’ in the future.
Bright fireballs seen over southern England by dozens of people. Watch videos here: https://asteroidday.org/11-26-2017-bright-fireballs-…of-people/
By 150 tons a day and Japan doesn’t know what to do with it. Scientists vs fishermen and locals conflict.
Nov 26, 2017
Japan is embracing nursing-care robots
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: health, robotics/AI
Japan leads the world in advanced robotics. Many of its firms see great potential in “carerobos” that look after the elderly. Over a quarter of the population is over 65, the highest proportion of any country in the OECD. Care workers are in desperately short supply, and many Japanese have a cultural affinity with robots.
AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children’s song, “Yuyake Koyake” (“The Glowing Sunset”).
Nov 26, 2017
What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind?
Posted by Ian Hale in category: neuroscience
Nov 25, 2017
DARPA Wants to Use Genetic Modification to Turn Plants into Spy Tech
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: genetics, military, robotics/AI, surveillance
DARPA has a new surveillance program in the works, and it doesn’t involve training human agents or AI operators. Instead, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense wants to genetically engineer plant-based sensors as battlefield spy tech.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the think-tank that’s under the U.S. Department of Defense, recently announced that it’s working on a new project that could change how pertinent information is gathered on the battlefield. The project, dubbed the Advanced Plant Technologies (APT) program, examines the possibility of turning plants into next-generation surveillance technology.
Nov 25, 2017
Iceland drafts emergency evacuation plans as volcano rumbles after centuries of inactivity
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
A volcano that has been dormant for centuries could be about to erupt on Iceland’s southeast coast. Officials are now preparing evacuation plans.
Nov 25, 2017
New systems must be put in place that can detect missile containers
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: military, policy, space
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
We have recently seen evidence of how our national security was compromised by the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal that gave Russia 20 percent of our uranium reserves. We are now learning more about the serious security compromise at Port Canaveral and its adjacent military infrastructure.
The container port is not only close to U.S. Air Force facilities and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, but more importantly, it is adjacent to our strategic ballistic missile nuclear submarine base. A Nov. 2 Center for Security Policy updated “occasional paper” exposes this “perfect storm” of a threat tied to Russia’s Club-K container missile system.
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Nov 25, 2017
The jury’s still out on whether universal basic income will save us from job-stealing robots
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, economics, Elon Musk, employment, government, robotics/AI, transhumanism
In this new Business Insider article, my ideas on peak labor and Universal Basic Income are pitted against MIT scientist Andrew McAfee. I’m excited to see my government shrinking Federal Land Dividend proposal getting out there. Story by journalist Dylan Love: http://www.businessinsider.com/will-universal-basic-income-s…?r=UK&IR=T #transhumanism #libertarian
Does free money change nothing or everything?
Universal basic income (UBI) is the hottest idea in social security since Franklin Roosevelt signed the New Deal in 1935, and it is fairly understood as free money given to citizens by their government. Though the idea traces its roots back to the 16th century as a “cure for theft,” UBI has gained new consideration and momentum these days, as high-profile techno-doomsayers like SpaceX founder Elon Musk point to it as an economic solution for big problems predicted to arrive soon.