Multimedia Amputation Bionic Prosthetic Salad Surprise!

Aug 202011
 
Multimedia Amputation Bionic Prosthetic Salad Surprise!

Well, we’ve got three uplifting success stories of flesh-to-metal human augmentation/cyborg making here. These are all pretty sexy – to a point where it almost feels like you’re watching special effects. Only a matter of time until this becomes a voluntary amputation/augmentation sorta industry.  My knees and ankles are counting the days… VIDEO: The Knee that Knows What You’re Going to Do [VIA ABC] VIDEO: Oscar Pistorius is Taking His Blades to the Olypics Proper [VIA YOUTUBE] RADIO INTERVIEW: Biophysicist’s Legs Frozen Off, Builds Himself Better Ones [VIA NPR]

 August 20, 2011  Posted by at 12:33 AM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Military Robotics, Multimedia, Prosthetics, Robot, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Technology Dilates Time ∴ Remixed Anthrobotic Classic Compensates for Weeklong Hiatus!

Aug 132011
 
Technology Dilates Time ∴ Remixed Anthrobotic Classic Compensates for Weeklong Hiatus!

As the writing staff here (which is, you know, me) have been stuck in a southern Japanese forest for the past four days, not much new has happened at www.anthrobotic.com.  But we’re back in the stream now, and will put forth on Monday.  Until then, have a look at a slightly remixed/remastered version of the site’s most popular post ever: Technology Created Organized Religion. Next Project: Cults For & Against the Singularity. (Now with snarky topical headings to ease the pain of the article’s length!) Futurism, Techno-Sociology, Technological Anthropology, Sociotechnological Studies, Anthrobotic Sociology – or just, you know, generic human [read full post]

 August 13, 2011  Posted by at 5:16 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, NBI, Neurology, Singularity, Technology, The Beginning is Near

Proactive Evolution and Transhumanism According to the Economist

Aug 012011
 
Proactive Evolution and Transhumanism According to the Economist

“…Lately we have begun to consider the possibility that technology might change us more in a generation or two than evolution has done over millions of years.” The always excellent Economist takes on the issue of transhumanism and the Singularity in a thoughtful and well-rounded piece. I’m hard-pressed to find anything to make fun of here, even coming up with some snarky or cheeky comment is proving kinda difficult. So, just have a read! [VIA THE ECONOMIST]

 August 1, 2011  Posted by at 5:38 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, NBI, Neurology, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology Law, We're Already Cyborgs Already

¡Singularity Improbable! Is Kurzweil’s Brain Science Timeline too Ambitious?

Jul 272011
 
¡Singularity Improbable! Is Kurzweil's Brain Science Timeline too Ambitious?

Neuroscientist David J. Linden and Futurist, Inventer, and Entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil call bullshit on each other over the timeline for and feasibility of truly understanding the human brain and altering our perception with nanobots.  That’s a funny sentence. [VIA KURZWEIL AI]

 July 27, 2011  Posted by at 1:45 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Neurology, Singularity, The Beginning is Near

Ray Kurzweil Will Melt Your Reality (VIDEO)

Jul 152011
 
Ray Kurzweil Will Melt Your Reality (VIDEO)

Here Kurzweil addresses a laundry list of psychological and sociological questions about the future of human technology and how that currently defines and will come to define our species.  Agree or not, it will definitely light a fire in your brains. anthrobotic.com is definitely +1’ing this one. While it’s possible that Kurzweil is severely overoptimistic and overreaching in his proclamations, in evaluating his position two things are certain:  one should not listen too carefully to the non-scientists or those who criticize from outside the field (like, for example, robot hater and closeted homosexual Senator Tom Coburn – that sub-reference never [read full post]

 July 15, 2011  Posted by at 10:48 AM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Multimedia, NBI, Prosthetics, Robot, Singularity, Technology, Technology & Politics, Technology Law, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Despite an Exponentially Growing Knowledge Base, Learning to be Human is Painfully Slow

Jul 122011
 
Despite an Exponentially Growing Knowledge Base, Learning to be Human is Painfully Slow

We are getting better, much better… But it’s slow, and hard.  This NYT article focuses primarily on “top-down” AI projects – projects seeking to actually find a way to manually express the complexity of natural movement, behavior, and understanding in the physical world.  That seems terribly challenging.  For researchers seeking a more…  organic, or spontaneously emergent kind of AI or NBI (non-biological intelligence), see the work of Dr. Andrew Ng.  And please don’t be put off by his junior high-level site design – this really is a case of not judging the book… [VIA NEW YORK TIMES]

 July 12, 2011  Posted by at 1:18 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Military Robotics, NBI, Neurology, Robot, Technology, WarBots

Technology Created Organized Religion. Next Project: Cults For & Against the Singularity

Jun 292011
 
Technology Created Organized Religion. Next Project: Cults For & Against the Singularity

So…  What’s a Singularity, Yo? Futurism, Techno-Sociology, Technological Anthropology, Sociotechnological Studies, Anthrobotic Sociology – or just, you know, generic human science or whatever, has borrowed from cosmology & astrophysics the concept of a “singularity,” and capitalized it.  Very basically, it’s where the rules break down – gravity, time, and space go bananas.  Regarding human technology, it centers around us producing an intelligence that supersedes our own, which in turn does its own thing, and as a result all we can predict about the future is that it will become utterly unpredictable – all truisms will fail, we’ll be flying blind. The idea [read full post]

 June 29, 2011  Posted by at 12:25 AM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Neurology, Robot, Singularity, Technology, Technology & Politics, Technology Law, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already
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