It is about neither Ray Kurzweil accelerating intelligence nor the coming of the singularity.
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Moreover, the program was able to recognise the singularity of languages such as Basque and Maltese.
Instead of avoiding the growth of artificial intelligence, the Singularity Institute is trying to manage the risk.
The strange thing here is that, from a business perspective, the singularity quickening is the harder sell.
Many of them happen to be colleagues of Och's at Google, adherents of what's called the Singularity Movement.
And I thought it had something to do with being driven in a driverless car to the singularity!
Speaking before the students of the Singularity University Executive Program in October, Saffo enumerated seven keys to effective forecasting.
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Most of the big names in the Singularity movement are featured here, including Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.
The third aspect of the Singularity that Charlie Stross deals with, and deals with rather briefly, is the Simulation aspect of it.
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It covers a few topics related to the Singularity, puts people in front of the camera, and gets them talking about their ideas.
The idea stems from when Raptopoulos led a research group including the company's three other co-founders at the Singularity University in Silicon Valley.
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Wolens lets both advocates and critics of the Singularity just speak their piece and lets the view decide what to make of the ideas.
Proponents of the singularity typically state that an intelligence explosion is a key factor of the Singularity where super-intelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds.
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There are critics of the Singularity concept featured here, but for the most part, the criticism is about the wisdom or ethics of some of the proposed technologies.
Kurzweil's magnum opus, "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, " outlines the implications of this transition in a way that is simultaneously believable, terrifying, meticulous and mind-bendingly absurd.
The barriers we break in pursuit of our inquisitiveness result in our ability to peer beyond our limited horizon, watching the singularity if ever we can, would the ultimate achievement of us homosapiens.
Alsatian-born and Paris-trained, Loeffler was one of America's most cosmopolitan figures of his day, and if his sensuous music does not possess the singularity of Claude Debussy's, its Impressionist beauties deserve greater familiarity today.
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The Singularity Institute is comprised of scientists, philosophers and philanthropists from places such as the Research Triangle and Silicon Valley, and universities such as Harvard and Stanford, said Michael Anissimov, media director at The Singularity Institute.
Last week we attended the Singularity Summit.
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He recommended reading The Singularity is Near.
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The second aspect of the Singularity that Stross takes a look at in his anti-Singularity arguments is the prospect of uploading the brain into a computer, which is a popular means in speculative fiction for a type of immortality.
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All of this will be thrust on us by something that Kurzweil calls the Singularity, a theorized point in time in the not-so-distant future when machines become vastly superior to humans in every way, aka the emergence of true artificial intelligence.
Much as I love the march of technology and innovation, I remain skeptical of the techno-optimists who are convinced that just around the corner is the technological solution to all of our problems, ushering in the singularity or, at the very least, the United Federation of Planets.
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Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
These people believe in the Technological Singularity theory: The possibility that technologically augmented intelligence will change human life as we know it or possibly wipe it out completely.
Similarly, huge amounts of human digitized speech were required to achieve the speech singularity (aka Siri).
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In short, this is the visual singularity.
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Take the case of Singularity University, a non-profit educational institution located at Moffitt Field in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Likewise, without Youtube and the 72 hours of video uploaded each minute, the coming visual singularity would be impossible.
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Pell founded the company with two others that he met at Singularity University, Naveen Jain, the founder of InfoSpace and Intelius, and Dr. Robert Richards, a founder of International Space University, who is CEO of Moon Express.
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