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Apr 18, 2017
In 10 days, I’m speaking at the 2017 California Libertarian Party convention
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in category: transhumanism
It’s in San Jose, and I’ll be doing a short talk at the reception on Friday night, April 28, and giving a formal 45-min talk on Saturday, April 29, 1:30PM on Technology and Liberty, and how radical science like transhumanism needs freedom to grow. Please join me at this major event! https://ca.lp.org/pricing/
Apr 18, 2017
How Anaconda’s data science platform will help IBM speed up enterprise machine learning adoption
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: business, robotics/AI, science
Apr 18, 2017
Neural networks explained
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: mathematics, mobile phones, neuroscience, robotics/AI
In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems—such as the speech recognizers on smartphones or Google’s latest automatic translator—have resulted from a technique called “deep learning.”
Deep learning is in fact a new name for an approach to artificial intelligence called neural networks, which have been going in and out of fashion for more than 70 years. Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts, two University of Chicago researchers who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what’s sometimes called the first cognitive science department.
Neural nets were a major area of research in both neuroscience and computer science until 1969, when, according to computer science lore, they were killed off by the MIT mathematicians Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert, who a year later would become co-directors of the new MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Apr 18, 2017
These five trends are shaping technology development in Australia
Posted by Alireza Mokri in category: business
Apr 18, 2017
China’s first robotic resupply freighter transferred to launch pad
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Chinese engineers rolled out a Long March 7 rocket to a seaside launch complex on Hainan Island in the South China Sea on Monday, aiming to fire a robotic refueling freighter into orbit as soon as Thursday to test technology for China’s future space station.
The Tianzhou 1 spacecraft mounted on top of the 174-foot-tall (53-meter) Long March 7 launcher will dock with the Tiangong 2 space lab around two days after liftoff, the first of three linkups planned during the cargo carrier’s mission.
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Haven’t we all heard it a billion times? ‘There are other priorities’ more urgent than defeating ageing. This article attempts to rebut that objection.
Somebody think of the children!!!
—Every social justice warrior ever
Sigh.
Apr 17, 2017
Are Genetically Modified Astronauts Key To Colonizing Mars?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: genetics, space
Apr 17, 2017
How President Trump Could Jumpstart Space Settlements
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
If President Trump wants to truly lead the United States and world into the exploration and settlement of the solar system, he needs to do something different and game-changing.
Apr 17, 2017
Is this the flying car you’ve been waiting for?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, robotics/AI
For the past several years, Urban Aeronautics has been developing a military VTOL aircraft called the Cormorant. The company’s Metro Skyways subsidiary is also exploring the possibility of a civilian aircraft based on the technology. The first details of that aircraft have now been released.
