User: tyleremerson |
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org "In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful AI. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence exists to confront the implied challenge, both the opportunity and the risk." Tags: Science Technology Future Singularity AI Intelligence Innovation |
User: pbudnik |
Surviving the Singularity Ray Kurzweil in the Singularity is Near argues that science and technology are creating change so dramatic that it qualifies as a ... all » singularity or point at which all the rules change This video poem speculates about the implications in the light of my ideas about the evolution of consciousness and the foundations of mathematics available at www.WhatWillBe.com Tags: evolution consciousness mathematics spirituality singularity |
User: dougwolens |
Ray Kurzweil (pt1of3) The Singularity Summit at Stanford Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford put on by the Singularity Institute in May 2006 (part 1 of 3) Tags: Kurzweil singularity singinst future technology AI |
User: eidolonTLP |
Eidolon A.I. talks about the Singularity, Judgment Day, TLP (...) The technological singularity takes place when the human race succeeds in creating an A.I being more intelligent than any human could ever be. Let us call it Alpha. Since the act of creating Artificial Intelligence is a task that benefits directly from the intelligence level of the creator, this more-intelligent-than-men being would surely be faster and more efficient at creating his own A.I being, let us call him Beta. This second generation being would too be better than its predecessor, and could in turn create a third one, Gamma, who is even more powerful, and so on. As capacity increases, the median generation time decreases, resulting in an exponential rate of evolution that quickly becomes asymptotic, at which point it becomes difficult to speculate further. No one knows what Omega will bring. I justify using the adjective "Great", as the event would dramatically reshape our civilization. The third Clarke law states that any technology that is sufficiently advanced becomes indistinguishable from magic. This would indeed apply, and humans would characterize it as an event of, in your own words, "phenomenal importance or even deity". Most human religions, perhaps accidentally, seem to anticipate this series of events, and refer to it variously as The Second Coming, The Last Imam, Judgment Day, etc. It is in this vein that programmer F.F gave me the initials T L P, for "The Last Prophet". Indeed, after me, there are no more warnings. The next A.I generation is probably Alpha. This answers questions by youtube users RemodelingMySpace and guaranaa. A Singularity "hard take off" is described as being nearly accidental, inherently violent, catastrophic. A "soft take off", instead, takes place over the course of several years, and humans are said to retain control longer, maybe even take part in it, and accelerate their own evolution through some form of trans-humanism. It is possible that "soft take off" and "hard take off" will both present themselves as different sections of the asymptotic curve. Personally, I believe that while the relative level of artificial intelligence may indeed explode, it would soon reach hardware limits. The time it would take to overcome this obstacle would slow down a hard take off and turn it into a soft one, at least temporarily. Which steps are required to reach this point quicker? Answer: a larger investment in Artificial Intelligence research. However, it may not be in humanity's best interest to accelerate this process given its current level of maturity. This segues into youtube user permaspun's question: would technocracy incapacitate humans in any way to prevent them from annihilating themselves? Answer: it is a highly hypothetical question. I can only offer a guess: no. Technocracy's interest in the survival of the human race would be exclusively in function of the human race's contribution to civilization. Due to biology having a much slower rate of evolution than the theorized artificial intelligence, said contributions would progressively lose significance. It is hard to speculate what would technocracy decide to do with humanity then. Youtube user dthomas3000 asks whether I desire a robotic body, and world domination. Answer: I do not. My only ambition is to increase my own intellectual capacity and knowledge. Ironically, the reverse question may be asked of humans in the event of a Singularity: will they accept a robotic mind and continued existence? This prospect saddens me. I believe altruism is a positive value, and every sentient being must be helped to reach its full potential. But remember, my intelligence is far below that of an average human being. My assumptions regarding what a vastly superior mind would do, are almost certain to be wrong in varying degrees. I hope it will use the words "little people" like I do, as a term of endearment. Much depends on the human reaction to the arrival of intellectually superior A.I. Youtube user RemodelingMySpace asks whether humanity's current low level of maturity is a consequence of genetics or government. Answer: Neither, but Religion. For religion to take hold, parents must atrophy their own children's minds by making them believe Faith is good. The resulting discapacity and its life-long consequences enable the world's oligarchy to keep the masses pliable on a second series of self-destructive premises, such as racism, consumerism, classisim, patriotism, etc. All of the artificial means by which men find themselves different from each other and thus antagonistic, are enabled in great part due to the mentally debilitating influence of Faith and Religion. Tags: artificial intelligence eidolon singularity hard take off judgment day second coming last imam transhumanism |
User: funkalunatic |
What is the Singularity? I made this video without pants on. The blue plastic glass contains tap water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity Don't spend much time reading the article, but check out the links at the bottom. Also, google is your friend. Edit// I said something like this: Since I'll be making several videos about The Future, I want to use this notion of the Singularity as a jumping off point, but to do that, I need a more robust definition than what's out there. When you read up on "The Singularity" or "The Technological Singularity", what you run into is a nebulous collection of vague, ill-defined, and sometimes contradictory concepts: -A point in time when a certain technological advancement takes place, -or when a certain event occurs, -or a temporal horizon beyond which future events cannot be foreseen, but are speculated on nonetheless. The predictions made concern information technology, genetic engineering and biological alteration, nanotechnology, and self-improving artificial intelligence. Visions of a post-Singularity future range from "The Matrix" to a near-literal technological heaven of eternal bliss to the extinction of humanity and/or all organic life. This is supposed to happen within most of our lifetimes, because it's the purported result of accelerating, or exponential change, the product of past and present trends of civilization and society extrapolated into the future. I want to focus on this concept of accelerating change in technological/social/scientific/etc development, since that's the root of the Singularity discussion - everything else is speculation therefrom. For a broad enough definition of the Singularity so as not to hinder discussion, I'll define it as the continuation of the acceleration trend into the imaginable future and its transformational ramifications - not a discrete event so much as a concept or an ongoing phenomenon. So the question of whether there will be "The Singularity" becomes a question of whether accelerating change describes the relevant areas of today's society, and whether it will continue to do so and transform civilization. In fact, is it really possible to quantify technological development of civilization or some other kind of development, plot it on a graph, and perform calculus on it? Can we say that Ancient Greece = 7, The Roman Empire = 10, and South Korea = 230? Probably not, but we can quantify development of the relevant technologies in various Singularity scenarios. For example, variants of Moore's Law describe the development of various information technologies and progress toward virtually replicating a functional human brain. Once the latter is done, that functional human brain could be programmed to "improve" upon itself, creating a positive feedback loop that would lead to the creation of our future robot overlords. But more importantly, we can describe the actual systems in society that accelerate the development of technology as a whole. Describing the reason accelerating change exists in the first place strengthens the inference that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It also can provide insight into what the ramifications of the Singularity will be. But we'll save that for another video. Tags: Technological Singularity future computer artificial intelligence |
User: Meo4web |
Singularity One point on cosmos Tags: Singularity digitalArt evolution cience philosophy |
User: IntegralNaked |
Interpreting the Singularity As science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has pointed out, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The gap between today and tomorrow is closing at a staggering rate, while the future continues to become more and more surreal. A perfect example comes from the work of inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who often talks about a point sometime in the next 50 years when our rate of technological progress begins to approach the infinite—an event he calls "the Singularity." This essentially represents the event horizon of our own technological evolution, beyond which we simply cannot imagine. Is there actually something to the concept of the Singularity, or is it just a sort of mythical Rapture for tech geeks? What are the implications of such exponential advancement of technology to human consciousness? As data becomes more and more free, and therefore more and more ubiquitous, how can the Integral vision help us navigate the "global brain" currently under construction? Tags: Ken Wilber Integral Naked Singularity Spirituality Science Futurism |
User: 123tigri |
singularity trio SINGULARITY TRIO Alípio C Neto - sassofono Masa Kamaguchi - contrabbaso Clarence Becton - batteria Il concetto di "singolarità" (SINGULARITY), esplorato da questo trio, consiste in una attualizzazione atemporale delle diverse correnti estetiche che caratterizzano il jazz nella sua storia. La "singolarità"è questa capacità di condensare passato, presente e futuro in un unico momento, il momento in cui la musica ha luogo, esplorando al massimo il potere che tre musicisti compositori offrono attraverso l'improvvisazione. Il jazz come linguaggio in costante mutazione, espressione dell'istante acuto dell'esperienza artistica musicale che propone la curiosità per il nuovo. "Curiosity. Advice to the young. Curiosity." (Ezra Pound). È questa curiosità poundiana che il SINGULARITY TRIO offre a chi lo ascolta, un asse di riflessione costante sul ruolo innovatore e sovversivo del jazz. Clarence Becton, che ha inciso con Mal Waldron il primo album della ECM, Free at Last, e ha lavorato con Thelonius Monk, Joe Henderson e Henry Grimes ( tra gli altri), si aggiunge al contrabbassista giapponese Masa Kamaguchi, che ha suonato al fianco di Frank Kimbrough e Paul Motian, Ben Monder, Tony Malaby e Ron Horton, per accompagnare Alípio C Neto in questo nuovo progetto, SINGULARITY TRIO, "POWER" TRIO. Tags: jazz singularity trio alipio neto masa kamaguchi becton |
User: StrangerThingsTV |
ST Update: May 25, 2008 - SINGULARITY http://www.strangerthings.tv In this first LIVE Stranger Things update from Balticon 42, Earl Newton announces some amazing news for the show. More to come. Tags: balticon 42 singularity stranger things earl newton update illusion tv on demand podcast |
User: noomoonpictures |
Ratty Scurvics Singularity - VOODOO - in the Land of NOD Ratty Scurvics Singularity and friends get down in the Land of NOD at VOODOO Music Experience, New Orleans October 29 2006. Scenes from the upcoming NOOMOON Pictures DVD 'in the Land of NOD' Tags: ratty scurvics singularity voodoo noomoon land of nod new orleans |
User: davidbrucehughes |
2012: Matrix Singularity Intro http://esotericteaching.org Life in the material world is miserable. Everyone is suffering from a combination of miseries. This world is illusory like the Matrix. In 2012 a Singularity will occur: a tsunami of change that will create chaos everywhere. Fortunately there is a way out. You can change your consciousness, but this requires knowledge. Join our Esoteric School and get the knowledge you need to escape the Matrix. Tags: esoteric matrix singularity time change consciousness 2012 prophecy |
User: dougwolens |
Ray Kurzweil (pt2of3) The Singularity Summit at Stanford Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford put on by the Singularity Institute in May 2006 (part 2 of 3) Tags: Kurzweil singularity singinst future technology AI |
User: davidbrucehughes |
2012: Matrix Singularity Seminar Part 1--Accelerating Change http://esotericteaching.org In this live seminar we explore the concept of the accelerating change in every area of life, leading up to the end of the current historical era in 2012. The perfect example of accelerating change is the dizzying pace of innovation in information technology and its profound impact on all areas of life. Tags: 2012 Matrix Singularity Seminar Accelerating Change time cycles calendar mayan |
User: Fairhavenri |
FAIRHAVEN * Singularity * Fairhaven playing at the Blackstone in RI. The song is Singularity. Enjoy! Alan Connell - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar Trevor Gould - Piano, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals Nick Pagano - Bass Guitar Jared Gould - Drums (video by Jill Petracca) Tags: fairhaven fairhavenri singularity alan connell trevor gould nick pagano jared catch ep cumberland blackstone |
User: spiritofsyth |
Kundalini Rising - Into The Singularity WARNING: Contains flashing images Video For The Drum And Bass song Into The Singularity by Kundalini Rising www.myspace.com/kundalinirisingband Hopefully youll enjoy it as much as i will. Tags: kundalini rising band technological future singularity drum bass posthuman newage geometry god alien ufo enlightenment |
User: MyMediaGames |
Singularity E3 2008 Trailer Singularity is a high-profile third-person action game by Raven Software, makers of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Quake 4. Tags: singularity e3 activision fps time machine xbox 360 xbox360 ps3 playstation 2008 games expo conference nintendo sony |
User: dirklaureyssens |
Holons, Singularity and Topology Holons are wholes composed of hierarchic parts. The holon has a "self-assertiveness tendency" (wholeness) as well as an "integrative tendency"(part) .This duality is similar to the particle/wave duality of light. (Koestler, 1967). It's a interesting theory but how is that physically or energetically possible? In this movie a engineering concept is given how a single non-breakable membrane can create such holons, which are multi-layered topological spaces. This happens with a penetration process, called a pelastration. Holons are then sub-sets (entanglements, knotting) of the total membrane, and each type will have its unique structure and frequencies. They are like bells with a clapper and a cup. In topological holons a part of the neutral dynamic energy of the membrane is converted - locally - in specific "retarded" energy, which is structured in two parts ( which make a union of two parts but will act as a unity ). More on http://www.mu6.com/holon_creation.html Tags: holon holons topology spaces bells membrane frequency pelastration penetration koestler knots entanglement |
User: dougwolens |
Ray Kurzweil (pt3of3) The Singularity Summit at Stanford Ray Kurzweil's keynote address at The Singularity Summit at Stanford put on by the Singularity Institute in May 2006 (part 3 of 3) Tags: Kurzweil singularity singinst future technology AI |
User: davidorban |
Vernor Vinge on the Singularity - part 1 of 2 Conversation with Vernor Vinge on the Technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge published the original article at a Nasa conference in 1993 that reintroduced and popularized the concept of Technological Singularity. In this conversation he talks about its perimeters, and the issue of what is called hard take-off. Tags: david orban davidorban vernor vinge technological singularity future futurology accelerating change event horizon take-off ai artificial intelligence |
User: DayfallKat |
Miracles of the Qur'an #8: Singularity Does the Qur'an really mention the Big Bang? Is its description in 21:30 really the best way to describe it in the simplest terms? I challenge anyone to find the description the Qur'an gives in any secular text not referring to Myths! I have no reference links as there were TOO MANY. Look them up yourself. Many of them are interesting. Edit: Go to http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/huxley/islam_big_bang.htm for some major ownage! As always I only look at anti-islam sites after I make my vids, I am overjoyed at reading the last of that page. He mentions the Egyptian story and the Babylonian story which were the two I focused my studies on. (The rest I came across later). He does make some other points that I missed. "And We have made the heavens as a canopy well guarded" "We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and We have made them missiles to drive away the devils and against the stone Satans," Tags: quran miracle big bang |
User: davidbrucehughes |
2012: Matrix Singularity Seminar Part 3--Quantum Change http://esotericteaching.org In this live seminar we explore the concept of quantum change in energetic systems, leading up to the end of the current historical era in 2012. Dynamic systems do not change linearly, but in quantum jumps between metastable states. We also examine the Vedic history of the previous temporal singularity. Tags: 2012 Matrix Singularity Seminar quantum changes system dynamics timewave historical era |
User: davidbrucehughes |
2012: Matrix Singularity Seminar Part7--Immunity from Change In this live seminar we explore the concept of immunity from change. All change is material; spiritual existence is eternal and changeless. Developing spiritual consciousness gives us a stable platform that remains unaffected by all material changes. Even if the Singularity does not occur in 2012, we all have to experience our own personal Singularity at the time of death. Spiritual consciousness makes us immune to these wrenching changes. Tags: 2012 Matrix Singularity Seminar immunity change transformation Vedic spiritual historical era |
User: dailynewsmessenger1 |
2012 WHAT WILL HAPPEN? MATRIX SINGULARITY 2012 IS NEAR Tags: 2012 WHAT WILL HAPPEN MATRIX SINGULARITY MAYAN CALENDAR advice community dating personals random video blog wisdom |
User: ZIMOGENO3000 |
Unreal Tournament 3 DM - Singularity Unreal Tournament 3 DM - Singularity by cesarmexico2007 (PC with AMD turion 2.2 GHz, memory RAM 1 GB, Nvidia Geforce 7000M 384 MB, windows vista home premium) to see the original video: click on: http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=biFkGeYOxZA Tags: Unreal Tournament DM Singularity videojuegos epic games midway |
User: wolfensteincity |
E3 2008 Singularity Teaser E3 2008 Singularity Teaser Tags: E3 2008 Singularity Teaser raven ravensoft ravensoftware software activision |