Blogging the Singularity

GM’s New Augmented Reality Human Machine Interface for Vehicles

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:03:15 +0000

I knew cars would get it first. I’m waiting for contact lens that allow us to ‘click’ on objects in the real world. This also advances my thought that we are cyborgs when driving a vehicle.

Facebook Beats Google in US for First Time

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:39:19 +0000

Social-networking star Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week, industry analysts showed…

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Rutgers University Plans Online Course on The Singularity

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:20 +0000

Singularity University is no longer the only University offering Singularity Studies.

This summer, Rutgers University plans to offer “Special Topics in Sociology: Singularity Studies, the first accredited college course on the Singularity and associated technologies…

Click here for more information found on and through the KurzweilAI.Net website.

Be sure to check out the list of instructors.

Click here for more information on the book “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil.

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Want Ultra High-Speed Internet?

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:58:43 +0000

Towns want Internet behemoth Google to choose their community for an experimental fiber-optic cable system that will blow the doors off Internet speed limits currently available…

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The Singularity: An Appraisal

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:28:05 +0000

This panel was held at Boskone 47 in Boston, MA on February 12th, 2010. Moderating was the Guest of Honor, Alastair Reynolds. Other panel participants included several time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge, Locus Award winner Charles Stross, and Karl Schroeder.

The Singularity: An Appraisal from Michael Johnson on Vimeo.

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15 More Years of Moore’s Law

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:58:25 +0000

Some laws are made to be broken, and others are made to be followed. A team of IBM Researchers in collaboration with two Swiss partners are looking to keep one law in particular alive and well for another 15 years…

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The Future of the Internet

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:17:34 +0000

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Will Religion Ever Disappear? - Sam Harris

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:25:27 +0000

Sam Harris is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason” which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and “Letter to a Christian Nation”. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. He is currently researching the neural basis of religious belief while completing a doctorate in neuroscience. He is also a Co-Founder and Chairman of The Reason Project.

“The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason” is a book that I’ve read and highly recommend. Click here for more information about the book.

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Need a Translation? Google Awaits Your Call

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:05:38 +0000

The Internet giant has applied its muscle to a phone application that can ‘listen’ to speech and provide translations in a computerized voice for English, Mandarin and Japanese…

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“Revolutionizing Transportation with AI” at Foresight 2010 Conference

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:45:14 +0000

This talk is a sequel that expands and deepens the analysis from Templeton’s earlier talks on the subject of robocars at previous Foresight and related events. One of the most exciting near-term AI prospects is cars that drive themselves — robocars. Thanks to DARPA’s contests, prototype cars are already a reality, and technogical barriers should fall in around a decade. The consequences of making transportation a software problem and bringing Moore’s law to cars are breathtaking. They begin with the million people killed each year in accidents and the hundreds of billions of human-hours wasted driving, and extend to providing a way to make light, efficient electric cars based on existing technology marketable to the public.

Brad Templeton: “Revolutionizing Transportation with AI” at Foresight 2010 Conference from Foresight Institute on Vimeo.

Intendix, The Brain Computer Interface Goes Commercial

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:52:27 +0000

The world’s first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived at…

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Our Bodies Shouldn’t Be Touchscreens

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:10:52 +0000

The catchily named Skinput device, the result of a collaboration between Microsoft and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, will…

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Israel, Iran, United States and Global Nuclear Poker

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:07:27 +0000

Remembering that technology is a double edged sword…

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Internet’s future on display at Singularity U.

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:17:54 +0000

The Internet of the future is an intelligent network capable of proactively acting on…

Click here for the report from CNet News.

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Artificial Intelligence: How Advanced Will AI Be in 2100?

podcast@bloggingthesingularity.com (Chris Williamson) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:10:24 +0000

It’s 55 years since the term artificial intelligence was coined. But how advanced will AI be in 2050 and in 2100? silicon.com quizzed some of the field’s foremost thinkers to find out…

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