The Possibility of Telepathy in Robots with Ben Goertzel

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年5月30日
Ben Goertzel, PhD, is author of many books on artificial intelligence including Ten Years to the Singularity if We Really Really Try; Engineering General Intelligence, Vols. 1 and 2; The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind; and The Path to Posthumanity. He is also editor (with Damien Broderick) of an anthology about parapsychology titled, Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. He is chief scientific officer for Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong.
Here he points out that, while the question of consciousness in robots is problematic, there are similar problems when exploring the question of consciousness in humans. He postulates that AI machines will develop some forms of awareness; and suggests thought experiments involving plugging the human brain directly into computers. He discusses credible research on extrasensory perception and suggests that people working in artificial intelligence and cognitive science will need to confront this data. He then speculates about the prospects for telepathic robots.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on April 29, 2016)

Alonso Vera: "Autonomy: Replacing Humans or Working with Them" | Talks a...

source: Talks at Google     2016年6月10日
Abstract Machine intelligence is improving rapidly based on advances in big data analytics, deep learning algorithms, autonomous vehicles, internet-of-things, and continuing exponential growth in computing power (Moore’s Law). This talk addresses the nature human expertise in this context, arguing that although machine intelligence is starting to yield content that is similar to human expertise (e.g., natural language translation, Watson on Jeopardy), the way that the content is arrived at is different and therefore the ways those capabilities will continue to evolve are different. The design and development of advanced planning and scheduling tools for rover missions to Mars and planning of crew activity on the International Space Station are discussed as a specific example of the interactive nature of human and machine expertise.

Dr. Alonso Vera has been at Ames Research Center for 15 years and is currently Chief of the Human Systems Integration Division. His expertise is in human-computer interaction, info systems, artificial intelligence, and computational human performance modeling. He has led the design, development and deployment of mission software systems across NASA robotic and human space flight missions, including Mars Exploration Rovers, Phoenix Mars Lander, ISS, Constellation, and Exploration Systems. Vera has a BS with First Class Honors from McGill and a Ph.D. from Cornell. He went on to a Post-Doc Fellowship in CS at Carnegie Mellon.

GTAC 2015: Robot Assisted Test Automation

source: GoogleTechTalks   2015年11月26日
http://g.co/gtac
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Hans Kuosmanen (OptoFidelity) and Natalia Leinonen (OptoFidelity)
OptoFidelity is a Finnish high-tech company with 10 years of experience in developing and delivering R&D test automation solutions. This talk will include our experiences and future outlook of non-intrusive test methods used in mobile device UI performance testing. Did you know that Chrome OS team uses a robot solution from OptoFidelity to measure end-to-end latency of Android and Chrome OS devices?

Bill Gates interview: How the world will change by 2030

source: The Verge    2015年1月22日
The Verge sat down with Bill Gates to talk about his ambitious vision for improving the lives of the poor through technology.
Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs
Read more: http://theverge.com/e/7634538

Michael Schratt: CRASH RETRIEVALS OF THE 3RD KIND

source: Project Camelot  2014年01月21日
On Monday, January 19th at 7pm PT I interviewed Michael Schratt about his new book, RETRIEVALS OF THE THIRD KIND which covers the long lost Leonard Stringfield ufo crash retrieval files. This interview was originally conducted live on the Project Camelot Livestream Channel.

Michael Schratt is an aerospace historian with an emphasis on new technology, ufos and crash retrievals. As a cutting-edge researcher into classified projects and unidentified craft he has met with and interviewed numerous scientists and aerospace engineers, pilots and executives from NASA and the defense industry. He investigates clues to planes that have been documented as having been flown by military from within both secret and top secret programs... He firmly believes that American tax-payers have every right to know where our money is being spent. Many of the craft he has documented are being funded within black projects... And he states that billions are being spent today on these craft. Some will only be flown once.

DESCRIPTION: Taken from his new book: ..."Michael Schratt was granted unprecedented access to this rare collection on March 8-9, 2013 and October 15-16, 2013 by the MUFON board of directors including former MUFON international director David MacDonald, and current director Jan Harzan. Per Leonard Stringfield's original request, the identities of personnel directly involved in UFO crash/retrieval operations will NOT be divulged. However, in the interest of preserving an important part of our national history, the contents and specific details of these important files will now be revealed for the first time."

This book is being released on the MUFON website (link to be provided) shortly.

GO HERE FOR MY PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS WITH MICHAEL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPp8Wj...
http://projectcamelotportal.com/compo...
http://projectcamelotportal.com/compo...
http://projectcamelotportal.com/blog/...

Twiiter co-founder (Biz Stone) talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Biz Stone, Co-founder, Twitter and chief executive, Jelly Industries
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Crowd-sourcing - pioneer talks about technology in 2014

source: WithTheEconomist  2013年12月28日
The World In 2014, New York City (December 5th, 2013)

The way people use technology is changing fast. On the hardware side, Web-enabled and interconnected home appliances, the redundancy of keyboards, integration into our eyewear and clothing, speech recognition, and nanocomputing are about to alter our daily habits. At the same time, the speed of the internet and ease of mobile communications have transformed the way we consume media. How will people connect in 2014 and beyond?

Luis von Ahn, Founder and chief executive, reCAPTCHA and Duolingo
Martin Giles, US technology correspondent, The Economist

Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...

source: TEDtalksDirector 2013-03-19
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.
Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate

Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo

source: TEDtalksDirector 2013-05-02
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we're only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new "digital tattoos."

谷歌CEO大膽預測 科技改變6大人類生活型態

source: 鉅亨網劉季清 綜合外電 | 鉅亨網 – 2013年4月29日

全球科技大老谷歌執行長出書了！谷歌執行長施密特(Eric Schmidt)的新書《數位新時代》（The New Digital Age）於上週二(23日)正式發售。《CNN》報導，這本萬眾矚目的新書是由施密特和谷歌智庫(Google Ideas) 總監柯恩（Jared Cohen）共同寫成。本書中，施密特大膽預估未來科技改變人類生活的6大趨勢。

施密特︰「本書討論的不只是科技，更是人類未來互動、生活的型態。」

1. 網路隱私教育相當重要，要及早開始：未來的孩子在網路的生活，會比平日的生活活躍。父母必需及早教導孩子網路隱私、網路安全的觀念，甚至要比教導孩子性觀念還早。

2.行動網路崛起，2020年全球都可上網：智慧型手機越來越便宜，將大大改變人類生活。行動網路迅速崛起，加上智慧型手機價格越趨便宜，將大幅改變人類吸收、使用資訊的方式。據統計，在非洲，目前有6500萬人使用智慧型手機，在亞洲則有30億人。

3.社群網路的角色越來越重要：新聞媒體不再是即時訊息的主要來源。新形成的組織若不跟上社群網站(如Twitter)，則將會逐漸被淘汰。書中提到，未來的世代，資訊會比現在更爆炸，人們對於跟不上最新消息的組織、企業和媒體將沒有耐心。企業必須不斷調整目標、方法和組織架構，才能跟上全球瞬息萬變的腳步。

4.雲端資料庫將成為常態，徹底改變人類隱私權：網路不斷進化，個人在網路上的虛擬世界不斷擴大，而個人資料也有可能隨之被公開。書中指出，網路的資訊是公開的，不要在網路上隨意發表言論、張貼文章，因為所有你曾瀏覽過的網站、你的社交圈、你喜歡的事物，別人在你的社交網路上發表的意見，都可能會被公開。

5. 反政府的革命將會透過網路達到史無前例的頻繁：透過網路和新興科技，人們將有更多管道可以推動革命。主導這些反政府的革命主要族群大多會是年輕人，原因之一為年輕人對網路和新科技較熟悉，原因之二為全世界的年輕人都有一股傲氣和激進性格。

6.恐怖攻擊透過網路將更為猖獗：恐怖主義不會消失，並且將對社會產生毀滅性的作用。書中指出，未來10年的上網人口將越來越年輕，許多社會邊陲的年輕人，很可能透過網路來策劃恐怖攻擊。雖然網路可以變成策劃恐怖攻擊的工具之一，但卻也使兇手更容易被發現。就算再怎樣精心策劃恐怖攻擊，只要是透過網路，就無法完全抹滅證據。

Terry Young: Using Big Data to Spot Big Trends

source: Big Think 2013-06-25
All across the Internet, we see little memes popping up, and then petering out. A savvy Internet user might be able to use her intuition to spot the memes that have staying power, but identifying these memes in isolation, while perhaps interesting, is not very useful.

"What makes it useful and what makes it actionable," says Terry Young, founder and CEO of sparks & honey, a data-driven advertising newsroom, "is when you cluster multiple things that look similar together and you begin to analyze the patterns and you begin to quantify it."

In other words, when you are trying to spot a future trend you need to find an organizing principle that surounds it. Macrotrends, as Young explains in the video below, are like living, dynamic organisms. At sparks & honey, Young's team uses data analysis to track the subtle movements of 60 macrotrends. "We use those clusters in order to build content and build relevance for a brand," he says.

Transcript -- When you're trying to predict a future trend you need an organizing principle. And what we have done is created 60 macrotrends. We believe that these are living organisms and that they shift and they shape and they're dynamic in nature, almost like a neuro network exists under each macrotrend. So if I threw out the macrotrend like superhuman or robo apocalypse or living matter, we track on a daily basis all of the little subtle movements that happen, the shifts in consumer conversations, the shifts in influencers, the shifts in new scientific studies that support that macrotrend. And we score each of those components.

The importance of that is that it allows us to understand the dynamic nature and take -- use big data, which feeds in, use real time examples -- we connect it into our network of 60 macrotrends and then we use those clusters in order to build content and build relevance for a brand.

For a macrotrend to be born we have to see X number of manifestations in the marketplace. And it varies by category, but when we have enough activity clustered together we create a new macrotrend. Sometimes these are born from an existing macrotrend, but the things that we watch -- there's a couple of pieces. One is we watch very closely the patterns that we see. The second, we watch for the things that are accelerating the movement.

For every trend there's an accelerator and there's a balancer. And the accelerators -- if you imagine sensor network, which is the idea of taking small little sensors, embedding them into dumb products and making them smart products, one of the things that is accelerating that is everything that's happening around robotics, artificial intelligence, everything that's happening around super human, bionics, singularity movement, so forth and so on. On the flip side, though, we have content networks like digital detox, where people are running away from digital so that they can remove digital from their lives, or incognito, where people are trying to look for ways of masking themselves so that they can have a greater level of privacy, or robo apocalypse, which is the fear that robots are going to take over our world, and you see it manifesting in entertainment, popular culture and books.

Without organizing principle, basically what happens is this: brands see something that burst in culture and they're like, "That's really interesting." And they do nothing with it. Why? Because anything that bursts in isolation is not useful. It's just interesting. What makes it useful and what makes it acitionable is when you cluster multiple things that look similar together and you begin to analyze the patterns and you begin to quantify it.

Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd

Michio Kaku: WIll We Ever Be a Galactic Civilization?

source: TheCircuitMojoHD  2008-05-26
WIll We Ever Be a Galactic Civilization?
Asked the biggest question that he would like answered, Physicist Michio Kaku answers:
Will we survive long enough as a species to evolve into an advanced "type 1" civilization?

Vernor Vinge

source: Singularity University 2012-07-19
Summary of his lecture here: http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/17/...

Vernor Vinge - a techno-optimist.

source: Singularity University  2012-07-19
A brief interview with Vernor Vinge at Singularity University. Vinge gives his insights on life, groupminds, the future, and of course, the Singularity.
Article here: http://singularityhub.com/2012/07/17/...

Michio Kaku: The Dark Side of Technology

source: Big Think 2012-05-11
http://bigthink.com/
Dr. Michio Kaku addresses this question: What is the most dangerous technology?
Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd

Michio Kaku: In the Future, We Will Wear the Internet

source: Big Think 2011-11-15
http://bigthink.com
When will we be able to enter a room and create an imaginary scenario so realistic that it seems as if we are really there? Sooner than you think, says Dr. Kaku.

Can We Have Brain-to-Brain Communication?

source: Big Think 2012-09-26
Michio Kaku says this brain-to-brain communication would involve not just the exchange of information, but also the transmission of emotions and feelings, "because these are also part of the fabric of our thoughts."

Michio Kaku: There's no doubt that the internet is creating what is called an intelligent planet, that is, the skin of the planet earth is becoming a network by which intelligent creatures communicate with each other. But that's just the first step. Some people think that the next step in the coming decades is not going to be the internet. It's going to be Brain Net because we're at the point now where we can actually connect computers to the living mind. In fact, I was just at Berkeley a few weeks ago where I had a demonstration of this: we can actually create videos of your thoughts. These videos are not perfectly accurate, but I saw a demonstration in a laboratory at Berkeley where you can actually see in a video screen what people are thinking.So with electrodes, perhaps, or EEG sensors in a helmet connected to our brain, perhaps one day we'll be able to have brain-to-brain communication, and that gives us the possibility of Brain Net. In fact, some of the leading neurologists doing these experiments have seriously proposed a brain net whereby you would exchange not just information like typing, but also emotions, feelings, because these are also part of the fabric of our thoughts. And then what comes beyond that? Well, of course, beyond that is science fiction, and science fiction gives us all sorts of horror stories of things like Sky Net: maybe one day the internet will become sentient; maybe one day the internet will think that humans are in the way and perhaps the internet will take over just like in the Terminator series. Well, I don't think so.The internet is simply a way in which minds can communicate with other minds. We see no self-awareness in the internet. Now some people say,"Well, what about some kind of collective consciousness that arises by an emergent phenomenon?" Well, that's a lot of gobbledygook. That's a lot of nice words. Maybe. Maybe not. But it's pure speculation at the present time. Even in the laboratory with our finest instruments and the latest developments in artificial intelligence, we cannot make a computer become self-aware. You realize that one of our most advances computers was the IBM computer Watson, which defeated two humans on the program Jeopardy. At that point, many pundits said, "Oh my God, the end is near; the robots are going to put us in zoos; they're going to throw peanuts at us; make us dance behind bars when they take over, just like we make bears dance behind bars today." Well, just remember that Watson, no matter how fast it is, was so stupid you couldn't congratulate it. You can't go up to Watson, slap its transistors and say, "Good boy!. You just beat two humans on Jeopardy. You made history. Let's drink to it!" You see, Watson is an adding machine, a very sophisticated adding machine. It adds billions of times faster than the human brain, but that's all it is. It's what is called an expert system. It deals with formalized inputs, formalized outputs. You talk to an expert system every time you're on the telephone, and the telephone says, "Please hit button one; please hit number two for the next option." That's called an expert system. It's basically a sophisticated adding machine that sounds like it's thinking, but it's not. It's simply using a formalized logic. If you hit one, then you go there. If you hit two, you go someplace else. That's Watson -- of course on a very, very sophisticated level. So I personally think that we don't have to worry that that internet is going to become sentient.

Directed / Produced byJonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd

Elon Musk: Tesla and SolarCity Will Accelerate the Development of an Ene...

source: Big Think 2013-09-05
Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk explains how Tesla and SolarCity address energy consumption and energy production respectively - a critical step to realizing our transition to a solar-powered world.

Transcript -- The reason I put so much time and effort into creating Tesla was because, it's always said to me that the transportation won't go electric and should go electric, but we have an unpriced externality in the negative effects of gasoline and on the environment and also in the wars that we fight and national security and that kind of thing.

Whenever you have an unpriced externality you can't quite rely on the market to do the right thing. So in order to have electric vehicles come sooner than they otherwise would... electric vehicles were always going to be the long-term transportation mechanism, but to make that day come sooner, you have to bridge the gap with innovation. That was the goal with Tesla is to try to serve as a catalyst to accelerate the day, the day of electric vehicles. And I think when all is said and done, I am hopeful that historians will look back on Tesla and say that Tesla advanced that by at least 10 years, which that would be a huge victory of mine... in my mind.

SolarCity, of course, is on the energy production side of things because it doesn't help if we have sustainable consumption of energy, but then that energy isn't produced in a sustainable way. I feel quite strongly that solar power will be the single largest source of electricity generation by midpoint of the century. In fact, just a simple extrapolation of the growth of solar power would for sure, that that's obviously going to be the case. And also when you consider that the earth is almost entirely solar powered today and that the fact that we're not a frozen ice ball at say 4 degrees kelvin and it's just due to the sun. And the whole ecosystem is powered by the sun. There's just an itty bitty amount of energy that we need to do complicated human things. It's a tiny amount of energy really compared to what the sun puts on the earth every day. And we just need to capture a little bit of that and turn it into electricity. So we have to try to accelerate that with innovation. And that's what SolarCity is about.

Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton

Pranav Mistry - 第六感驚人的潛力 (中文字幕）

source: dxmonline·2009-12-16
看了會讓您大吃一驚的科技展現，美國MIT Media Lab（麻省理工學院媒體實驗室）的天才學生普拉納夫(Prarnav Mistry)，發明了一項結合實體世界和虛擬世界的科技，令人又驚又喜；喜的是，對­於未來生活，悠遊於實體和虛擬之間，將更自由無限，驚的是，對於現今的人們和企業而言­，這場演講是一場提醒：「訊息上身，才有未來」。影片來源:TED.com