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PBS Newshour | Ray Kurzweil on Bringing Back the Dead

July 12, 2012

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Source: PBS Newshour — July12, 2012

We round out “Ray Kurzweil Online” with the third and final installment of our miniseries. Thursday’s outtake with Mr. Immortality:

Does Kurzweil believe that an avatar of his dead father — created with artificial intelligence and a lifetime’s worth of data and mementos — is, well, his actual father, the guy who died when Ray was 22? This is a step beyond Kurzweil’s stated objective — to stave off death ad… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Human Enhancement

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We Blog the World | Singularity University, Women@TheFrontier and 10 Incredible Women Design the Future

July 31, 2012

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Source: We Blog the World — July 31, 2012

Singularity University held an event in conjunction with Women@TheFrontier at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley last week.

The program: “Designing the Future 2012″ brought together some of today’s female game-changers who are designing the future and disrupting the status quo.

Women@TheFrontier’s Susan Fonseka-Klein and KristinaMaria T-Gutierrez introduced inspirational women who had one heart warming story after another to share.

NASA’s Yvonne Cagle also paid a sentimental tribute to astronaut Sally Ride who passed away on July… read more

Topics: Singularity/Futures

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Kirkus Reviews | How to Create a Mind

September 15, 2012

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Source: Kirkus Reviews — September 15, 2012

A pioneering developer of optical character recognition and text-to-speech software explores the possibility of creating a synthetic neocortex that could surpass the human mind.

Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, 2005, etc.) bases his prediction on modern insights into how the brain has evolved a hierarchical pattern-recognition structure. We perceive the bare outline of events and reconstruct memories in an ordered sequence, and… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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AME Info | Experts predict the future in Abu Dhabi

September 19, 2012

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Source: AME Info — September 19, 2012

Two highly distinguished U.S. scientists shared their vision of mankind’s future at Abu Dhabi’s Manarat Al Saadiyat yesterday in a talk titled “What does the future look like?”, as part of the Muntada Program 2012 series of special lectures.

Speaking to a packed hall, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, and Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics

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Topics: Innovation/Entrepreneurship | Singularity/Futures

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VentureBeat | Even Ray Kurzweil is nervous about a future with hyper-intelligent machines

October 3, 2012

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Source: VentureBeat — October 3, 2012 | Meghan Kelly

“We’re making very discernible progress in AI. It’s quite visceral,” Ray Kurzweil told the audience at the DEMO Fall 2012 conference.

He also made a comment about Apple’s Siri voice assistant and how far it still has to go. Kurzweil was directly involved in creating Nuance, which is the speech-recognition technology behind Siri.

“I think actually the natural language understanding of Siri is fairly weak,”… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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We Blog the World | Ray Kurzweil on ethics & natural language processing

October 5, 2012

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Source: We Blog the World — October 5, 2012 | Renee Blodgett

There was an odd but interesting combination of fireside chats at DEMO Fall this year: Ray Kurzweil and Ev Williams both took the stage over the course of the 2.5 day event in Santa Clara, CA.

Says Ray in a response to the question of why natural language processing has taken so long to advance: “You have to take a hierarchical approach just like human language —… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics

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Computerworld | Kurzweil: Brains will extend to the cloud

October 7, 2012

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Source: Computerworld — 10/3/2012

Human brains will someday extend into the cloud, futurist and computer pioneer Ray Kurzweil predicted at the DEMO conference here on Tuesday.

Moreover, he said, it will become possible to selectively erase pieces of our memories, while retaining some portions of them, to be able to learn new things no matter how old the person is.

“The brain doesn’t grow much from a very young age,” he said.… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Singularity/Futures

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Slashdot | Kuzweil: The cloud will expand human brain capacity

October 10, 2012

Source: Slashdot — October 10, 2012 | Nick Kolakowski

Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil predicts the cloud will eventually do more than store our e-mails or feed us streaming movies on demand: it’s going to help expand our brain capacity beyond its current limits.

In a question-and-answer session following a speech to the DEMO technology conference in Santa Clara, California last week, Kurzweil described the human brain as impressive but limited in its capacity to… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Internet/Telecom | Singularity/Futures

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PC Magazine | Futurist Ray Kurzweil wants to move your brain into the cloud

October 11, 2012

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Source: PC Magazine — October 11, 2012 | Michael J. Milller

Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on technology and its future.

When he spoke at the Demo conference last week, it was no surprise that he covered everything from why computers will continue to get better at an exponential pace to how we will be able to expand our… read more

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Singularity Hub | Interview with Ray Kurzweil: new book How to Create a Mind November 13

October 11, 2012

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Source: Singularity Hub — October 11, 2012 | Keith Kleiner

Kurzweil’s book on how to create a mind is sure to bring some new spin, as well as plenty of debate to a highly controversial topic. Many claim that the human brain is too complex and too mysterious to be understood or replicated within our lifetimes, if ever.

Others (many who regularly read this site!) on the other hand, recognize that technologies such as Siri and… read more

Topics: AI/Robotics | Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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