Singularity Summit 09 coming up in New York
On October 3-4, 2009, the Singularity Summit 09 is held in New York, and it promises to be a very…
Tag: artificial intelligence
All writing →The Singularity University launches to prepare for humanity’s grand challenges
With help from Google, and NASA, the Singularity University is being unveiled today. Founded by Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Diamandis,…
Singularity Summit 08
Tomorrow in San Jose, under the tagline “Opportunity, Risk, Leadership”, the 2008 Singularity Summit will explore the state of AGI…
Computer security and AGI
That spam filters would be the first computer systems to wake up, has been a part of the AI lore…
Joining SIAI and participating in the Singularity Summit
Image by David Trowbridge This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil‘s,…
Italian post-code database liberated from paywall
The Italian Post Office was privatized recently, and they pulled the freely downloadable database of Italian postcodes, right before introducing…
Google AI achieves medical Expert System status
For the last couple of days, one of the top articles, with more then a hundred of others, in the…
The Amazon Mechanical Turk that represents a potential revolution
Amazon has just announced the Amazon Mechanical Turk, which in my opinion will bring great advantages to both the web,…
Fiction is not science
I would be surpised if Asimov thought his laws could become the basis of the real science of AI or sentient robots.…