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Can the Human Mind Be Uploaded for Space Exploration?

The idea of uploading out of these meatsacks has always appealed to certain people, and you can tell an awful lot about them by their use of the phrase "meatsacks."  Athena Andreadis recently wrote an article on why we can't be uploaded, explaining how any ghosts in the machine would just be copies.  But we ask the more important question: is that a problem?

The Evolving AI Ecosystem

One of the greatest fears of many is the underlying knowledge that of all the wonderful advances of technology, the internet and robotics is simply bringing us closer to being subservient to our robotic overlords. It is essentially a historical imperative, and we can see it coming a mile away.

Google Leaping to an "AI" Future

In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in San Francisco, Google co-founder Larry Page let slip with a truth many Web and search gurus suspected:

“We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence (AI) and to do it on a large scale…It’s not as far off as people think.”

Page controls the largest conglomeration of computing power the world has ever seen, is building artificial intelligence, and according to Page it isn’t that far away. Page's spiritual mentors, leaders of AI true believers such as Ray Kurzweil, are predicting that the exponential growth of Moore's law will continue beyond the use of integrated circuits into technologies that will lead to technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history : we won't experience 100 years of progress in the twenty first century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate).

Posted by Casey Kazan.

Link to Our BioTechnology Future

Can the Human Mind Be Uploaded for Space Exploration?

The idea of uploading out of these meatsacks has always appealed to certain people, and you can tell an awful lot about them by their use of the phrase "meatsacks."  Athena Andreadis recently wrote an article on why we can't be uploaded, explaining how any ghosts in the machine would just be copies.  But we ask the more important question: is that a problem?

The Evolving AI Ecosystem

One of the greatest fears of many is the underlying knowledge that of all the wonderful advances of technology, the internet and robotics is simply bringing us closer to being subservient to our robotic overlords. It is essentially a historical imperative, and we can see it coming a mile away.

Google Leaping to an "AI" Future

In a speech Friday night to the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in San Francisco, Google co-founder Larry Page let slip with a truth many Web and search gurus suspected:

“We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence (AI) and to do it on a large scale…It’s not as far off as people think.”

Page controls the largest conglomeration of computing power the world has ever seen, is building artificial intelligence, and according to Page it isn’t that far away. Page's spiritual mentors, leaders of AI true believers such as Ray Kurzweil, are predicting that the exponential growth of Moore's law will continue beyond the use of integrated circuits into technologies that will lead to technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history : we won't experience 100 years of progress in the twenty first century—it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate).

Posted by Casey Kazan.

Link to Our BioTechnology Future