[dinopello]

Kurzweil: All we need is (brain implanted, nanite enhanced) Love !

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'K')urzweil predicts that in the 2030s, human brains will be able to connect to the cloud, allowing us to send emails and photos directly to the brain and to back up our thoughts and memories. This will be possible, he says, via nanobots -- tiny robots from DNA strands -- swimming around in the capillaries of our brain. He sees the extension of our brain into predominantly nonbiological thinking as the next step in the evolution of humans -- just as learning to use tools was for our ancestors.

“We’re going to be funnier. We’re going to be sexier. We’re going to be better at expressing loving sentiment,” Kurzweil said at a recent discussion at Singularity University.

[vox_mundi]

[vox_mundi]

AI machine achieves IQ test score of young child

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')IT Technology Review poses the bigger question: to what extent do AI capabilities add up to the equivalent of human intelligence? Shedding some light on AI and humans, a team went ahead to subject an AI system to a standard IQ test given to humans.

Their paper describing their findings has been posted on arXiv. The team is from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an AI research group in Hungary. The AI system which they used is ConceptNet, an open-source project run by the MIT Common Sense Computing Initiative.

Results: It scored a WPPSI-III VIQ that is average for a four-year-old child, but below average for 5 to 7 year-olds

MIT Technology Review made the observation that, "Of course, there are various ways that the test could be improved."

Giving the computer natural language processing capabilities is one way. "That would reduce its reliance on the programming necessary to enter the questions and is something that is already becoming possible with online assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Google Now," said the report.

MIT Technology Review added this to the bigger picture regarding this IQ study: "Taking Ohlsson and co's result at face value, it's taken 60 years of AI research to build a machine in 2012 that can come anywhere close to matching the common sense reasoning of a four-year old. But the nature of exponential improvements raises the prospect that the next six years might produce similarly dramatic improvements. So a question that we ought to be considering with urgency is: what kind of AI machine might we be grappling with in 2018?"

[dinopello]

Rise of the ROBOSEXUALS: Humans will have virtual reality sex by 2030 and droid trysts will be more popular than human love-making in 2050!

If your curious about robot emotions or teledildonics, there is a conference you can attend.

There is organized opposition to Robosexuals.

I guess we'll be seeing robot sex commercials soon

[vox_mundi]

AI is not just about robots; it's about algorithms too ...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.').. "Many choices that people consider their own are already determined by algorithms," argue Prof. Dirk Helbing and Dr. Evangelos Pournaras from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in a commentary published in the latest edition of the science journal Nature.

Personalized information might make it possible to control our society in a top-down way, the article explains. China has recently started to introduce a "citizen score" - a single number which determines loans, jobs, and travel visa, depending on someone's behavior and web history, and on the behavior of their social contacts.

[Sixstrings]

Omg.. that "social credit score thing.."

Yikes. Orwell and the tech convergence, meet communism.

It's such a burgeoning nightmare. I wonder if this will ever come to the West, one day. Facebook and google and now Microsoft with its new OS, already track every last little thing about someone right down to who they had lunch with yesterday at a diner (that people willingly post / tweet, about themselves).

So.. just plug all that.. into a "social credit score." And have it affect people's ability to get loans, or when you go for a job interview they pull your credit report *and* your "social credit report."

Right wingers and anti government types, tea partiers, they'd have a LOW social credit score. And it would affect their ability to get loans, or a job, or get a government job or gov grants.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'H')owever, getting approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would likely be very difficult, Friend told The WorldPost.

Gosh darn big government !

[SeaGypsy]

Not the point. The process of total enslavement should be seamless, the results such a clear improvement over nefarious freedom to render such impotent. The main thing Christian paranoiacs got wrong is there is no need for chipping people or barcoding them. Our 16 megapixel face image & our internet tracking does it all. One last hurdle is the removal of cash, complete digitisation of the economy. When the sheeple start demanding this, Orwell's corpse will be mambo dancing.

[vox_mundi]

Resistance is Futile! ...

Google wants to monitor your mental health. You should welcome it into your mind

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Google doesn’t just want to read your mind, it wants to fix it too.

It’s not alone. Apple, IBM and Intel are among technology companies exploring the same field. IBM this year carried out research with Columbia University that suggested computer analysis of speech patterns can more accurately predict the onset of psychosis than conventional tests involving blood samples or brain scans. Other researchers theorise that a person’s internet search history or even shopping habits (so handily recorded by your innocuous loyalty card) can identify the first signs of mental illness. Computers can now tell when something is about to go terribly wrong in someone’s mind.

... wearable technology allows continuous monitoring. A small portable device might monitor your tone of voice, speech patterns and physical movements, picking up the early signs of trouble. A device such as a mobile telephone.

[vox_mundi]

Don't resist. It will only make it hurt more.

Google will let artificial intelligence reply to your email

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') Google is putting a different twist on the concept of "automated reply" with a new tool that aims to write artificially intelligent responses to your email.

The technology is part of an update to Google's Inbox app for managing and organizing email. The feature announced Tuesday is the latest example of Google's effort to teach machines how to take over some of the tasks typically handled by humans.

The most conspicuous example so far has been Google's 6-year-old project developing cars that can drive without a human steering the wheel. Google also has been using an artificial intelligence program called "RankBrain" to help determine the pecking order in its influential Internet search results.

In this instance, Google says it has created a program that identifies which incoming emails merit quick responses and then figures out the appropriate wording. Up to three choices will be offered as a reply before it's sent. The responses that people select are supposed to help Google's computers learn which ones work best.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vox_mundi', 'D')on't resist. It will only make it hurt more.

Google will let artificial intelligence reply to your email

[vox_mundi]

Robot would refuse to jump off a bridge and it would tell you why w/Video

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Robots are learning how to say no to humans.

[Keith_McClary]

[vox_mundi]

Robot To Try And Pass Tokyo University’s Entrance Exam

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')hina and Japan are working together to produce a robot called Torobo-kun capable of passing the University of Tokyo’s entrance exam, reports the Nikkei

[vox_mundi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')ith an encyclopedic knowledge and computation accuracy far greater than a human brain, it would be no big deal for a computer to beat a human at such a straight forward task. However the robot will fail the personality test. It never made it to band practice...

[vox_mundi]

High-tech Barbie stokes privacy fears

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The new Barbie doll is "intelligent" and connected. The high-tech "Hello Barbie" doll unveiled earlier this year by toy giant Mattel and likely to be a holiday hit allows children to speak and get a response from their favorite toy.

But to make that happen, conversations travel over Wi-Fi networks to Internet "cloud" servers that use artificial intelligence to deliver a personal reply.

ToyTalk said it expects kids to warm to the new connected doll.

[Cog]

The sexbots will probably be a popular item in the doomer bunker. Cherry 2000.