Contact lens with high-res capability could theoretically replace almost every screen we look at on a day-to-day basis. And totally molest our notions of reality, existence, and whether blue is really blue. What is “blue,” anyway?
Nov 252011
Nov 032011
With sophisticated enough models, I suppose we could wake up and review that moment of unconscious inspiration we can only vaguely recall by mid-morning. And put it up on YouTube.
November 3, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Posts, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Neurology, Technology
Oct 232011
Paul Allen knows business & marketing, but when it comes to all things Singularity, he’s an armchair intellectual who hasn’t actually done anything of note in the field. Kurzweil was making computers compose original music in 1965. Oh snap?
October 23, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, NBI, Neurology, Singularity, Technology
Oct 212011
Juan Enriquez says the ability to re-engineer living things and engineer entirely new ones is far and away the biggest thing since a bunch of other big things (even bigger than the industrial revolution). So… Cool, yeah?
Oct 172011
Perhaps unconsciously, Allen is asserting the primacy of human intelligence in our known universe – a cognitive barrier beyond which nothing can pass – because evolution made it… or something. Paul, an AI doesn’t have to be smart LIKE us, just as smart AS us. Namsayen?
October 17, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Microsoft, NBI, Neurology, Singularity, Technology
Sep 292011
As a recent Freakonomics podcast on the Folly of Prediction told me, dogmatic adherence to an ideal is the best way to end up wrong about stuff. Me, not him.
September 29, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology
Sep 272011
In the context of our perception of linear time, the march toward radically upgrading the human experience is not a “switch-on” process, it’s not sudden, it’s not merely a download away. It’s an ongoing-for-quite-a-while-now, subtle, and steadily accelerating merger.